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a routine that calculates the product of the x and y values of a chosen point.

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Tip#: 732
Author: Daniel Hsu
Rename File To: TIP732.LSP
Published on: 01-Jan-1992
Downloads: 936
Rating:
3
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 an AutoLISP routine that uses a dialog box to list the angle and distance between two selected points.

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Tip#: 1412
Author: Mosad Elewa
Rename File To: TIP1412A.LSP: DIS.LSP, TIP1412B.DCL: DIS.DCL
Published on: 01-Mar-1998
Downloads: 762
Rating:
1
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This function calculates a coordinate relative to another point.

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Tip#: 1817
Author: David Gonzalez
Rename File To: Tip1817: REL.LSP
Published on: 01-Aug-2002
Downloads: 356
Rating:
4
  Rated by 1 users

Slope Annotation Tool (Tip #2211) from Andrew Siddeley kicks off the tips for this month. Consisting of three files, one LISP module and two drawing blocks, this routine calculates the percentage s...  Read more

Tip#: 2211
Author: Andrew Siddeley
Rename File To: Tip 2211: slopeCalc.lsp
Published on: 01-Jun-2007
Downloads: 1709
Rating:
4
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Frequent contributor Leonid Nemirovsky submits a routine that you can use to label the x, y, and z of a picked point in AutoCAD. The r...  Read more

Tip#: 3667
Author: Leonid Nemirovsky
Rename File To: crd/,crd/crd.lsp,crd/SPOT_COORDINATES.dwg
Published on: 13-Jun-2011
Downloads: 2445
Rating:  Not Yet Rated

Alan Thompson has crafted a great routine for finding a station and offset on an alignment in AutoCAD. This routine will work with any object, such as a polyline or spline, and it ...  Read more

Tip#: 3724
Author: Alan Thompson
Rename File To: StationFind.LSP
Published on: 14-Sep-2011
Downloads: 1236
Rating:  Not Yet Rated

Kent Cooper expands on Cadalyst CAD Tip No. 3830 with a routine that allows you to select a triangula...  Read more

Tip#: 3892
Author: Kent Cooper
Rename File To: TriangleCenters.lsp
Published on: 17-May-2012
Downloads: 464
Rating:  Not Yet Rated

Kent Elrod sent this AutoCAD tip that is mostly for civil project designers.

“If you have changed the direction of North using the units or northdirection variable an...  Read more

Tip#: 4243
Author: Kent Elrod
Rename File To: No Files
Published on: 27-Jan-2014
Downloads: 0
Rating:
5
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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

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