Our last tip for the month is a redo of a prior tip. Al Rogers originally wrote Steel Sections (Tip #1779) in 2002. This winning tip had a few problems in a metric environment, so Australian reader John Baister took the time to create a fix. Resubmitted for your approval is Metric Steel Sections (Tip #2074), which takes the original and makes it better. Place the contents of the ZIP file into a folder known to the AutoCAD search system and load the LSP file. Type STL to activate the Command line, and a massive dialog box appears with lots of steel section drawing options. If you draw steel sections, take a look at this powerful tool for AutoCAD. Thanks and a tip of the hat to John for sending this great update. |