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Juan Villarreal is back this month with a very nice routine. Years ago, before there were table objects in AutoCAD, we made tables with lines and text. Often it would be much easie... Read more
Tip#: 4276
Author: Juan Villarreal
Rename File To: TableExport/,TableExport/Original.dwg,TableExport/TE_TableExport.lsp
Our last tip of the month is Hatch Maker (Tip #2065) from Lanny Schiele. Hatch Maker is a nifty utility for creating hatch patterns. If you have tried to create a hatch pattern by hand, you know th... Read more
Updated in September 2013. It has come to the author’s attention that the routine fails if there are coincident vertices at the beginning of a polyline. The new file acco... Read more
George Anderson of Eugene, Oregon, e-mailed a request to turn 3D polylines into 2D polylines. Several routines he downloaded from the Internet claimed to perform this function, but all failed to se... Read more
Michael Stachulak provided AIA Standard Layers, a must-have utility for architects who create all the layers needed for the American Institute of Architects standards according to the 1997 AIA CAD ... Read more
Pedro Gerstberger e-mailed a request to export x,y,z points from either polylines or AutoCAD point entities. The AutoLISP solution plist.lsp lets you select lightweight polylines, 2D polylines, or ... Read more
DuctiSoft President Andrea Andreetti is back this month with another great routine for AutoCAD. Tadd is a LISP routine that will display the ... Read more
Export Text from a Drawing to an Excel Spreadsheet C:Txt2Xls is a LISP command for exporting text from a drawing to an Excel spreadsheet. This command will attempt to locate text in columns based o... Read more
This routine from Robert Zipprich will return the total length of any number of lines, arcs, and/or polylines that you select. Load the LISP file and type in the command AddLine. S... Read more