How I can update my diesel expression to display the area in square feet not square inches. See expression below.
^C^Cattdia;0;_-insert;AREABLK;1;1;0;$M=$(getvar,AREA);attdia;1
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Because right now I have to draw 200 squares with 100 different areas and I have to calculate and manually draw each one of them.
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The diesel expression shown below extracts that number. My problem is I cant figure out how to I can edit this expression to allow for a set not starting at 1. I had used a formula to subtract the difference,but how do you express this to run in a script?
This is my script......
attreq
0
-insert
ftc-gwp-a1-nosheet-stb=ftc-gwp-a1-nosheet-stb
0,0
1
1
0
[code]........
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This is the information I have:
Filename: 123456-AS-WE.dwg
Attribute: Q2
Dynamic Block: X1 - Additional Information
This is what I require: 123456-AS-WE [Q2] [X1]
This is what I have so far: 123456-AS-WE [Q2] [X1 - Additional Information]
In other words, I need to restrict the dynamic block field to the first two characters.
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Here i am attaching the lisp file for ready reference.
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Civil 3D 2012
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the sum has to be devided with 1000000 so that it is in m2.
the lisp-routie i use is:
(defun c:ca(/ pt ent txthgt)
;;; bepalen van de teksthoogte indien current style height = 0
(setq txthgt (cdr (assoc 40 (tblsearch "STYLE" (getvar "TEXTSTYLE")))))
[Code]......
I have a lisp I use to calculate the area of an object. The section below is the area part of it:
(setq ojt (entsel "Select object to get area of... "))
(command "area" "o" ojt)
(setq oarea (getvar "area"))
I want to modify it to add the areas of multiple objects. Unfortunately it is not as simple as;
(setq ojt (ssget "Select object to get area of... "))
(command "area" "a" "o" ojt)
(setq oarea (getvar "area"))
So how would I go about doing it?
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