AutoCAD Visual LISP / AutoLISP :: Find Duplicate Text / Highlight With Any Color
Nov 27, 2013
find duplicate Text & highlight with any color (numbers or text string) ? I have a drawing and have to find duplicate text string, file is bigger and need make this automatic find, & highlight the duplicate text.
This is a routine that draws a line between duplicate text.
Would it be possible to have the line as bold red p-line so that its easier to identify.
;; This AutoLISP routine examines all the user-selected TEXT and MTEXT items, ;; and draws a line on the current layer between any two that have identical ;; string values. ;; Leading and trailing blanks spaces are ignored. ;; %% modifiers, like %%u, are not ignored. ;; Upper- and lower-case differences are not ignored.
(defun c:fdt () ;;Find Duplicate Text
(prompt "Select text items to examine: ") (setq ss (ssget '((-4 . "<OR") (0 . "TEXT") (0 . "MTEXT") (-4 . "OR>"))))
A program that prompts:"select objects:" then I can select some objects like as text, line, circle,... after that program find all texts in selected items and swap text
swap means: xxx/yyy ===> yyy/xxx ; "/" is a divisor
Is there a lisp or script program that will find and replace pre-defined text/mtext value of eg " issued for tender " for "issued for construction" without having to select anything.
I am trying to globally find and replace text in Autocad 2000 drawings. If I have a folder containing 10 Autocad files, I want to open every file in that folder, while in each file, search for a certain line of text and replace that text, then close that file, open the next and find/replace text in that file.
I've created an autolisp file that allows me to open all the files in a certain folder, but I can't find any way, either thru autolisp or scripts, to allow me to find and replace text in each autocad drawing without using Autocad's "find" command to manually enter the text when each drawing is open.
I want to setup the autolisp file to accept input up front, save the "old text" and "new text" to variables, then use those variables as the lisp routine is running.
This version was used to automate creating PDF files. The command 'PDF' is a command from another Lisp file.
A plugging we use has just updated and loading double menus causing error messages prompting that menu already exists unable to load.
In my cui the menus are loaded in my enterprise as well as my main.
How do I keep the menu with the same name in my enterprise yet unload the one of the same name in my main (where it shouldn’t be) using lisp (I want to Automate this using lisp, since I'm not always in office at the same time as everyone else)?
What is the best way to change the color of two pieces of specific text in lisp? I want to change where it says (strcase ln6) & (strcase ln7) to the color of green. I tried it a couple of different ways but I'm having some trouble. First I am setting the current layer with a color of blue. I am then running the text command a couple of times. I want to run the mtext command a couple of times but I want the text to be green & I want the width factor to be .85
How to change the dim text color in current dimstyle with a lisp routine? I want to modify current dimstyle instead of override current dimstyle, so it can change all existing dim text color under the current dimstyle.
The following snippit of code is changeing the color of text in a cell of an AcadTable. It will set the color to an RGB value and works great. But what if the color is a normal color 1 through 255 from autocad's pen table. How would I set the cell text color?
(setq objColor (vla-getcellcontentcolor eVLAMT R C)) ;sets a Color Object, whatever that is (vla-setrgb objColor RED GRN BLU) ;sets the new color of the Color Object (vla-setcellcontentcolor eVLAMT R C objColor) ;sets that new color object to the cell
I would like to set dimension text fill color to "background" instead of, you know, dimensioning my drawings properly.
I have this code I got on these forums and it works well except for the 'TextFillColor' variable. I can't find the correct color number or syntax for "Background'. It's currently set to 0 which produces ByBlock, and any number I put in there corresponds to the AutoCAD color number (1 = Red, 2 = Yellow, etc.)
If you have a better routine that you could post that works for me too. Or maybe you could just do my work for me? Even better.
(defun c:test (/ obj num cnt) (vl-load-com) (setq ss1 (ssget '((0 . "Dimension"))) num (sslength ss1) cnt 0)
I need to change the value of some tags in a title block on multiple drawings. I tried using Lee Macs attribute changer [URL]. It works fine but not when tags have the same name.
I then looked at this code - [URL]
Idea was to change the tag names then use Lee Macs program. It too fails when there are duplicate tag names. It changes all tags not just the one I want.
In the the title block I have 3 tags with the name "NAME" but only one will have the value I'm looking to change. If I could place an IF statement some where in the above codes (or another code altogether) to instruct that IF the tag name is "NAME" with value "Dennis (BSL)" then change either the tag name or the value to "Daniel"
Im pretty bad at this programming stuff but with so many drawings I need a easier, automated way of doing this.
how to check snap errors in drawing in a specified layer against some other layer. means first layer should end with second layer otherwise place error.both layers have linear features.
My drawing constitutes of many blocks and other objects , and i need to find specific blocks (with same block name) in my drawing which i cannot find them one by one and i though that i can find them all with lisp routine ..
so , i wanna specify point out of my drawing area and lisp routine will draw to line from basepoint of those blocks to specify point when i select one reference block.
We use multi-leader objects in our drawings. When the multi-leader and its value are to be replicated throughout the drawing, we create mleaders with fields that show the contents of the first mleader. That way we can update only the value in the first mleader and all of its children will update as well. It works nicely for us.
Here comes one snag. If one of us opens a drawing with which we are not intimately familiar, we don't know which mleader is the parent of which children. There might be fifty parents and four hundred children in a drawing so going through them by hand is a big productivity drain.
What I need to do is write a routine that will let the user select the mleader that includes the field and have the routine highlight and/or zoom to the parent object.
I thought I should be able to find that info in the dxf codes for the mleader, but I am either missing it or it's not there.
I want to know the correct way to find the offset origin of a layout in an AutoCAD drawing. Let say I have a drawing that has many items on it. And I create a layout showing just the items in the lower right corner of the drawing. I want to know the offset origin of this layout relative to the Model space.
I came across some LISP commands that are supposed to do just that:
How can I find a block with a specific name and get what the coordinates are? What we have is our Bill of Material is attributed blocks. I am attempting to change the first one. Well all of the lines that list the parts are seperate blocks with the same name. Now the Top Line of the Bill of Material is a different named block. If I can find the coordinates of this block I can then select the first line to do what I need to.
If needed: AutoCAD 2013 User using Visual LISP for editing LISP and DCL files Also I have AutoCAD 2011 currently still available for us, but we are using AutoCAD 2013 for 99.9% of AutoCAD use
Further to my earlier topic for getting the viewport scale which has been nicely solved, I am looking for a way to get one of the corners of the viewport outline 'drawn' in modelspace so that I can add the name of the spcific layout Tab to which it relates in a location that suits the drawn outline.
The code that I am adapting came from the thread titled Outline projection all viewports to model..The routine appears to pick up the corners of the viewport in paperspace and tranform/translate them to modelspace co-ordinates.
(defun _trans (p) (cons 10 (PCS2WCS p ent))) (defun _cornersFromBBox (o / a b) (vla-getboundingbox o 'a 'b) (setq a (_trans (vlax-safearray->list a)) b (_trans (vlax-safearray->list b)) ) (list a (list (car a) (cadr a) (caddr b)) b (list (car b) (cadr b) (caddr a))) ) (if (setq ss (ssget '((0 . "VIEWPORT")))) [code]....
I work with polylines a lot to maintain Facility Space and I come across polylines that are overlapping. Is it possible to have a routine to find polylines that are overlapping? Sometimes I really have to zoom in pretty close to see if they are overlapping and sometimes it's pretty obvious.
the names of the function to establish the plotting parameters using the (vlax-get-property <name> <parameter> ) method. For example the plotting device name is obtainable by (vlax-get-property <objectname> 'Configname).
What "words"/parameters do I use to find the plot orientation and paper size?