When using the express tool Burst, Invisible attributes are now visible. How does one modify the routine so that the invisible attributes are deleted.
View 3 RepliesI need a lisp code to burst all "blocks with text/attributes inside" in selected area. That means user should select an area (window selection) and lisp program should be find all blocks with TEXT or ATTRIB inside in selected area and then applys "BURST express tools" command to all these blocks in the selected area by user.
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(setq N 0 ctext nil) (repeat (sslength ss) ;
begin loop (setq ctext (entget (ssname ss N)))
(setq clayer (cdr (assoc 8 ctext)))
(cond ((= clayer "LABELS")
(setq flag "Start") );
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It's close... when I load it, however, instead of finding the block by name, it gives me "Select objects". As soon as I pick the block it executes the burst. But I can do that much without a program.
(defun c:burev (/ ss old-echo item)
(setq old-echo (getvar "CMDECHO"))
(setvar "CMDECHO" 0)
(if (setq ss (ssget "_x" '((0 . "INSERT")(2 . "E-REVTABLE"))))
(defun c:bu()
(c:burst)
)
(princ)
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MDT had its own express tools that someone had programmed some awesome file management tools into.i want to get access to these to do some large scale xref re-mapping (changing file paths) to sort an issue with file links now that we have a new cad server up and running.
i am not against doing some programming myself or scoring some of our great forum contributions to put this together if it hasn't been done yet, it just seems a waste that someone had done an absolutely beautiful job of doing this already, maybe we can track it down again?.URL....
i had my enterprise CUI working fine, and then one day it blew up and now everyone gets an error that autocad is trying to load acetmain.cui but it's already loaded. do i need to load acetmain.cui as a partial cui? i figured that i did, but then why does acad try to load it twice?
so i have the enterprise cui loading the acetmain as a partial. when the users log in, the enterprise cui is in loaded AS their enterprise cui in the Support Paths but then they load their own custom cui as the Main cui on their individual workstations. THIS cui ALSO is loading the acetmain. i think that's where the conflict is.
if that's the case, should i just give out instructions on how to remove the acetmain from their personal "custom" cui? it seems that if i take acetmain out of the enterprise cui, that the entire menu disappears from teh individual workstations.
I would like to turn off the express tool visiblity in the menu bar. I have turned them off in the CUI. (in all workspaces, I have removed the aecmain.lsp witch i see loads into the toolbar, I have unloaded the partial cui and reloaded). If I set the workspace to one which it is turn off it goes away. Problem is that when I open again "its back". Is there another place that I don't know about that controls?
I "do" want to load the express tools. I don't want them to show in the menubar nor the ribbon. I want to allow command line or custom menu macro to call. I was able to do this in 2010.
I am trying to get the end points of an invisible line it would be the line that you offset I know all about polar I just don't know which angle to add or subtract and I will pick the point on the side I want it to be on I am going to pick 2 lines and I want them to offset invisible lines in the middle the lines are not parallel.
View 8 Replies View RelatedI have this snippet that inserts a block “Exit_Arrow”. The block has one attribute. Is it possible to force the attribute to remain at “0” rotation regardless what angle the bock is rotated?
(defun C:Exit_Arrow (/ LA DS)
(setq LA (getvar "clayer"))
(setq DS (getvar "dimscale"))
(C:TTEXT)
(command "._insert" " Exit_Arrow " pause DS "")
(setvar "clayer" LA)
(princ))
Is it possible to create blocks whose attributes remain at "0" rotation regardless the host block's rotation?
I isolated 3 attributes as you can see with my code. My object is too take the value of blkDESC1 and set it as blktag, and then take blkDESC2 and set it as blkDESC1, and erase blkDESC2.
(defun c:aup (/ dxf ent dxf1 ent1) (defun dxf (code ent) (cdr (assoc code (entget ent))))
(progn (if (and (setq ent (car (entsel "
Select an Attributed Block: ")))
(eq "INSERT" (dxf 0 ent))
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I have a dynamic block with several visibility states, and each visibility state has one invisible-constant attribute. I can't seem to wrap my head around dynamic blocks well enough to get the value from the active visibility state invisible constant attribute. I know how to get the visibility state like this:
(setq ss (ssget "_x" (list '(0 . "INSERT") '(2 . "`*U*,<DynBlockName>") (cons 410 (getvar 'ctab)))))
but what next?
I have tried everything even un-installing and re-installing. I have customized programs that have been working properly for months by many individuals. These include custom menus, toolbars and ribbon tabs. One day last week one of the ribbon tabs disappeared. The crazy thing is if I load the .cuix file as an Enterprise cui, everything is visible and works just fine. BUT, when I load it as a partial cuix file the ribbon tab does not show up. The custom menus come in, my custom toolbars work and show up just fine but the dag blasted ribbon tab won't show up.
Yes, it's marked as visible. I've done and redone the cui editor, customized my workspace again and again checking every piece of information. I need to have it loaded as a partial cui file as I am the author of these tools that hundreds of people in my company depend on.
I have a block named "WD_MLRH". There are 3 specific attributes which I want to change in it. The attribute names are.
RUNGCNT, RUNGDIST and RUNGFIRST.
RUNGCNT will = 20
RUNGDIST will = 1.0 (or 1 will suffice)
RUNGFIRST will be decided by a user input.
Something along the lines of...
(setq RUNGFIRST (getint "Enter first rung number: "))
I'm sure this is completely wrong, but i hope that portray what I'm trying to accomplish.
I've been trying tons of different solutions to solve this problem: insert a block that has an attribute which happens to be the last object id.
This is the best code I tried so far but without any succss.
(defun c:q1()
(command "_.PLINE")
(while (= (getvar "CMDNAMES") "PLINE")
(command pause)
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I have searched the web and the Autodesk Discussion Group for a LISP Routine that allows me to convert all attributes in a drawing to Layer 0 but i have had no luck. It would be great if the LISP could edit xrefs as well although not sure if this is possible.
**BATTMAN command will take too long for the hundreds of blocks, xrefs and drawings i need to edit.
I need a function that will allow me to do a "divide" with blocks but I need the single attribute to remain intact.
I need the blocks to align with object and keep the attribute. I did get it to work with constants but the function that I need to run next failed because of the constant. My variable is preset and locked.
I downloaded a lisp routine that will align block attributes. The problem is I can only select the attributes one at a time. I'd like to be able select multiple attributes using the selection window or a crossing window, but I haven't had much luck. If you use the AEATTSHOW command, it give you a prompt to "select using window" by pressing W. I'd like to have the same functionality for my Align attributes routine.
Below is the portion of code I currently have to select attributes one at a time:
;* Select all attributes to align with the parent selected above and add the attribute entname and the block
;* entname to a list in format ( (AttrEntName BlkEntName) (AttrEntName BlkEntName) (AttrEntName BlkEntName) )
;*
while (/= TempAttr nil)
(setq
TempAttr (nentsel "
Select Attributes to align: ")
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I have to go through quite a few drawings and extract the attribute vales of the whole drawing and then a subset contained within a couple of polylines.
The whole drawing is Ok as I can use at out or the data extraction, but its the ones contained within a polyline. How do I do that?
i want to put the information of summaryinfo into the property of the file visible in the file explorer of windows XP
(setq activedocument (vla-get-activedocument (vlax-get-acad-object)))
i want to put this in the properties of the file (vla-get-title SummaryInfo)
because if i set the summaryInfo in autocad, when i open the explorer this information is not here
How I can modify this code to create a block, ask for a new name for the block, then add the attributes listed inside the code below to the new created block. The lisp does a wonderful job - however, it only works if you already have a block created. We are in the process of drawing components and making blocks one by one, so it makes sense to add the attributes automatically when the block is created. We currently have over 500 components to create as a block and set the attributes to each one by one.
Also I would like to know, If Fields can be used inside the lisp routine. That way we can always have access to the attributes from outside the block and change values for all the blocks at once.
(defun c:addattribs ( / blk def ) (while (not (or (= "" (setq blk (getstring t "
Name of block to update: "))) (tblsearch "BLOCK" blk) ) ) (princ (strcat "
Block "" blk "" not found.")) ) (if (/= "" blk) (progn (setq def (vla-item (vla-get-blocks (vla-get-activedocument (vlax-get-acad-object))) blk)) (vla-addattribute def (getvar 'textsize) acattributemodelockposition "New Attribute 1" (vlax-3D-point 0 0) "NEW_TAG1" "New Value 1" ) (vla-addattribute def (getvar 'textsize) acattributemodelockposition "New Attribute 2" (vlax-3D-point 0 (- (* 1.5 (getvar 'textsize)))) "NEW_TAG2" "New Value 2" ) (command "_.attsync" "_N" blk) ) ) (princ))(vl-load-com) (princ)
I know how to retrieve the entity information from the block, but can't figure out how to write the loop statement to loop, look for first attribute, assign to a variable, goto next attribute, assign to different variable, etc., etc...
In my research, most programs I've seen it execute the loop, assign to a variable, then print/put that data somewhere, loop again and utilize the same variable to print/put the next data somewhere.
I would like each attribute within a block to be assigned a separate variable.
I have an interesting challenge. I am tasked with updating old drawings. The only difficulty that I've run into with the old files are that the TitleBlocks are all done with all of the attributes are named "SPEC". There are 90 attributes. I'm really struggling with getting each attribute's value and then storing the value to a variable so that I can then put that value into a new TitleBlock. The old TB will be deleted to avoid future confusion in the file.
(To clearify, the old TitleBlock is in model space, while there are actually nine new TitleBlocks all in seperate paper space Layouts, and this program may have to run on hundreds of files.)
getting the values from the Old TB. I need them in order of first to last or last to first (either way will work since I have the variable names in a list that can be reversed if necessary.)
simple function to read through the block's attributes in order and store the attribute's value to a variable name in the seperate list (also in order)?
I am testing de new version of autocad 2014 and i have a problem with lisp.
when i use (command "_insert" "block1" pt1 "" "" "" obj1 ).
The block is inserted but without value. In the old version work.Some variable that has to change?
How i can filter attributes string value.
How i set the layer name is = attributes string value.
Example:
A attributes string value is R8 .all these string is set the layer name is same string value(R8).
I have 40 pages in one set of drawings and would like to rev-up the drawings. i will put same texts in same locations in the title blocks.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI'm using a blocklibrary, where I stored all my blocks, most of them have attributes.
Now I'd like to simplify my workflow and want to update the blocks that I inserted in a drawing trough LISP.
Is there a way to update all inserted blocks and attributes of the whole drawing a once? The idea is, that the LISP checks the whole blocklibrary and updates the inserted blocks that to not match with the once from the library.
We wanted to automatically fill a block's attributes from a selection in Excel. I have a piece of code that has the user select/pick a block to fill. What I want is for the selection to fill multiple blocks in an active drawing. Some of the blocks are the same - which means the same tags/attributes. I've included the code that allows the user to select the block and throws the Excel selection to certain attributes.change the code so that
1) I don't have to manually select blocks - it will find them.
2) One cell (from Excel) will go to multiple blocks - some are same block name.
3) An IF statement that if a certain cell isn't blank/nil
(pretend it would be (nth 21 vl) change DESC11 to XYZ and DESC12 to ABC. For Block namesake we'll call one, BLOCK1 (say it has 3 instances and gets different info in each case) BLOCK2 (say it has 2 instances, also gets different info) BLOCK 3 AND 4 both have an attribute - DESCAA1 that gets different info from Excel.
(defun C:AUTOFCM (/*error* adoc attribs blkobj enExcelapp Sel Sht Rng vl Wbk ) (defun *error* (msg)(if adoc (vla-endundomark adoc)) (if (and msg(vl-positionmsg '("console break""Function cancelled" "quit / exit abort") ))(princ msg)(princ "Error!") ) gc) (princ) ) (or adoc (setq adoc (vla-get-activedocument (vlax-get-acad-object))) ) (vla-startundomark adoc) (alert "Select a range of cells in Excel.") (setq ExcelApp (vl-catch-all-apply (function(lambda ()vlax-get-or-create-object "Excel.Application") )) ) ) (if (vl-catch-all-error-p(setq Wbk(vl-catch-all-
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im trying to change an attribute for only items visible on screen why dose the follow in then work and the one there after not?
(command "_attedit" "N" "N" "A4LANDSCAPE" "MYDWGSTATUS" "*" "" (cadr (fnsplitl (getvar "dwgname"))))
(command "_attedit" "N" "Y" "A4LANDSCAPE" "MYDWGSTATUS" "*" "" (cadr (fnsplitl (getvar "dwgname"))))
i am trying to restrict users from modifying certain attributes in a block,i can create the blocks with some of the attributes on locked layers, but then autocad pops up an annoying alert box, is there a way to disable this? the other option i can think of is to redefine the commands *ddedit, *attedit, *ddatte,*attipedit,
View 5 Replies View RelatedAny way to customize the double-click of a block attribute to run the _ATTIPEDIT command on the targeted attribute? I know this can be achieved by holding Ctrl & then double clicking, but I am often using my hand else where on the keyboard, or even more often, when entering many values into attributes, I am using my left hand to keep my place on a sheet of paper as I scroll down it and enter in the values.
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