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When working with long polylines and splines, you may find it desirable to have persistent grips to help with visibility and printing. This LISP routine will create “point” entities at ...  Read more

Tip#: 4504
Author: Brian Bennett
Rename File To: PRINTGRIPS.lsp
Published on: 13-Jul-2015
Downloads: 179
Rating:  Not Yet Rated

Kent took another request on the AutoCAD Customization Forum and came up with an elegant solution. The request was how to find a point on an object a specified distance from the endpoint. If the ob...  Read more

Tip#: 4486
Author: Kent Cooper
Rename File To: FromEnd.lsp
Published on: 15-Jun-2015
Downloads: 747
Rating:  Not Yet Rated

Here is another little tip that I find many people have not yet picked up on in the AutoCAD 2015 and 2016 interface. As many folks are loading the 2016 version at the moment, I thought this would b...  Read more

Tip#: 4479
Author: Dean Petersen
Rename File To: No Files
Published on: 08-Jun-2015
Downloads: 0
Rating:  Not Yet Rated

CAD Tip No. 4402, also from Kent Cooper, converts 3D faces to lines in AutoCAD. This routine is similar, except it co...  Read more

Tip#: 4445
Author: Kent Cooper
Rename File To: 3DFacesTo3DPolylines.lsp
Published on: 30-Mar-2015
Downloads: 3784
Rating:  Not Yet Rated

Kent Cooper created this routine in response to a question in the Autodesk customization forums; the user wanted to trim AutoCAD objects where the cutting edge turned out to be 3D ...  Read more

Tip#: 4402
Author: Kent Cooper
Rename File To: 3DFacesToLines.lsp
Published on: 23-Nov-2014
Downloads: 1317
Rating:  Not Yet Rated

This routine from Jay Thomas is an excellent example of combining LISP code with a dialog box with graphics. Its purpose is to draw railing elevations in AutoCAD.

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Tip#: 4401
Author: Jay Thomas
Rename File To: RailElevation/,RailElevation/Rail_Elev.dcl,RailElevation/Rail_Elev.lsp,RailElevation/Rail_Elev.slb,RailElevation/Rail_Elev.txt
Published on: 23-Nov-2014
Downloads: 337
Rating:  Not Yet Rated
Tip#: 4328
Author: Kent Cooper
Rename File To: LabelTextTrim.LSP
Published on: 29-Jun-2014
Downloads: 395
Rating:
5
  Rated by 1 users

This routine is an alternate to “Label Entity with Break,” also from Kent Cooper. That tip inserts a text string into an entity by physically breaking the entity. This ...  Read more

Tip#: 4329
Author: Kent Cooper
Rename File To: LabelTextMask.LSP
Published on: 29-Jun-2014
Downloads: 341
Rating:
5
  Rated by 1 users

In this tip, James J. Olszewski explains the benefits of adjusting the fuzz distance to eliminate gaps between polyline segments in AutoCAD.

This is a Polyline Edi...  Read more

Tip#: 4284
Author: James Olszewski
Rename File To: No Files
Published on: 07-Apr-2014
Downloads: 0
Rating:
4
  Rated by 1 users

It's not every day we receive a LISP file that’s more than 20 years old, but this month we have one. Frequent contributor Raymond Rizkallah sends us a calendar creation r...  Read more

Tip#: 4279
Author: Raymond Rizkallah
Rename File To: Calendar.LSP
Published on: 24-Mar-2014
Downloads: 600
Rating:  Not Yet Rated