AutoCAD Visual LISP / AutoLISP :: How To Use Civil Menu Macro
Oct 7, 2011
I would like to use the following macro from the LDD 2004 Civil menu (yes, we are still using 2004!): ^C^C^C^P(cd_mnl)(zz_sdsk '(ad_xsutl 2));LDD. The macro is Zoom to Station from the Cross Section pulldown menu. How to use this in a LISP routine, or an equivalent LISP command? (The user won't be supplying the station number. The station number will be extracted from a selection set of objects with attribute blocks with equivalent station numbers.)
Each cross section has an attribute block associated with it, which lists all the details for that section, including station. The macro must be using that block (listed in a database, perhaps?) to find the station in the dwg.
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Oct 30, 2013
I have tried to find information about this, but I am having a hard time. So i need to explain what I am doing.
I would like to be able to use commands stored in the cui menu file, initially this is done using our tablets, but our tablet drivers cannot work with windows 7 and autocad, nor can i get any that do, (i have tried over 20 different drivers).
So, instead of making a lisp function for every macro. I need to be able to use some of them.
Can I execute one of these macros using "MENUCMD" ? , I have all the information i need to do it but cannot figure it out menucmd does not seem to have an option to actually run the macro, and if it does It only seems to be able to do that with popup menus.
Currently i use the ribbon and add them in there, but want to know If i can do so just with lisp. and create my own on-screen tablet menu.
Here is an example of one of the macro's in the cui i need to use.
And here it is in the cui menufile:
UNDER-> <MacroGroup Name="User">
<MenuMacro UID="MMU_WT1[A-5]">
<Macro type="Any">
<Revision MajorVersion="17" MinorVersion="1" UserVersion="1" />
<ModifiedRev MajorVersion="17" MinorVersion="2" UserVersion="1" />
<Name xlate="true" UID="XLS_6804">WT1[A-5]</Name>
<Command>^C^CDTEXT C .125 0 </Command>
</Macro>
So.. that is my question how can i use that command via lisp..
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May 29, 2013
I use Spell Check regularly and I always check the entire drawing. I would like to add to the Spell macro so that when I pick Spell from the toolbar it goes past the Check Spelling window and begins checking the entire drawing.
I believe I need to insert Alt S into my macro to select Start from the window to begin the check. Is there a character or series of characters that will represent Alt in a macro?
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Aug 27, 2013
I used to have a short, one-line macro in my MNL file that would read the location of the currently active drawing, find the parent directory of that drawing (truncated to 3 levels) and open a Word document in that directory that is named after the project.
For example, if the active drawing path is
"Q:/Projects/12345 Cold Storage/Elevations/Phase 1/North Storage.dwg"
this macro would open the Word document named
"12345 Cold Storage.doc"
that was in the directory
"Q:/Projects/12345 Cold Storage"
If the file did not exist, it would be created named the same as the 3rd level directory.
After i wrote this, it sure sounds like a lot, but as i remember, it was a short, one-liner. Of course if a lisp routine would be better, that's okay too. I understand beggars can't be choosy.
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Jun 19, 2013
Trying to add this macro to a new command in my cui. Does Select all not work in macros?
^C^Clayiso;;_select;all;;_chprop;la;c-rway-x;;
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Aug 6, 2012
I urgently need a program that can auto number panels for a large drawing I have. I have a lisp program for auto numbering but we need each insertion of text to start with a P i.e. P1, P2, P3 etc etc.
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Nov 10, 2012
i want to call an excel macro from a lisp. is it possible?
now i have this:
(startapp "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office12\Excel.exe"
(strcat """
(getvar 'dwgprefix)
(vl-filename-base (getvar 'dwgname))
"XXX.xls""
)
)
i just want it to run macro1 from book1.xls
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Jun 28, 2012
I am trying to create a short cut button with a macor code.
I want it to set up a new orgin and set a base point in xrefs i am creating
The commands i want to combined are the follwoing
UCS enter
3P enter
BASE enter
The macro i am using is the following
^c^c_ucs 3p \_base
but it wont run the base command after it finishes the 3P command
This is whats show up in my commands bar
Command: _ucs
Current ucs name: *WORLD*
Specify origin of UCS or [Face/NAmed/OBject/Previous/View/World/X/Y/Z/ZAxis]
<World>: 3p
[Code]....
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Jul 10, 2013
Im currently creating a custom menu to insert blocks on request. I have set up the following macro which seems to work fine:-
^c^c-insert;HVLV-UB610x125;;;;
However when pulling in a specific block the drawing the layer becomes 0.
Ive tryed adding this additional macro line before the above one which fixes the problem :-
^C^C-LAYER;M;E-LIGHTING-CEIL;C;R;;;ORTHOMODE;1;^c^c-insert;HVLV-UB610x125;;;;
However now the block retains its layer properties ......ie E-Lighting-Ceil (or what ever I name it) but it drops the block
in RED, instead of its original colour.
Question is Im looking for a macro that will bring in my block as per ^c^c-insert;HVLV-UB610x125;;;;
but also bring it in to a drawing on its original layer that its saved to.
please note that even thou the first code brings it in at layer 0, the blocks layer is also inserted into the DWG however its just not associated to it ..... hence the user has to select the block once he or she has brought it in and then change the layer from the layers manager manually. This is not ideal.
just to recap i just need a macro that will A) bring in a block from a location. And B) keep all the properties it has when it is brought in.
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Jun 14, 2013
I am looking for an example excel macro to zoom to an object given the obect entities handle.
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Aug 11, 2012
I need to save an additional copy of a AutoCAD drawing whenever I press the save button.
Simply put, Every time I press save the autocad drawing is saved (Obviously!!!) but
I also need to save an exact copy of the drawing in a folder called (for eample only) "C:TestFolder"
I can do this using DxfOut for dxf files but I need to do this for dwg files.
Can it be done whenever I press the "save" button.
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Oct 19, 2012
Any easy way to create a macro or record a series of commands in 2007? It's my understanding that 2009 has this feature "built in".
I want to "record" a short series of commands/actions to use as a example to other novice users at my company.
It should be something that they can "run" and watch on their screen. (like trim a circle to get a arc)
I have downloaded/tried several general screen recorders but the resulting file is way too big. (20MB AVI)
I would prefer a Macro that would run right in Autocad. Maybe a third party plugin is available?
I am not looking to create a traditional Macro to use as a time saving device.
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Apr 29, 2012
I have a macro that i have been using in autocad 2012 for a simple copy & rotate command as follows
^C^C_select;auto;\_copy;p;;0,0;0,0;_move;p;;\_rotate;p;;\redraw
For some reason it now does not work in 2013 the macro exits after the copy part of the macro is finished & fails to let you rotate the copied object.
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Mar 29, 2013
It's been too long since I created one of these for Toolbars. I need a macro that will insert and explode a block. I just need the block's content, not the block itself. I can create a maco to explode a block with no path, but can't remember how to include the "*" in a file with a folder path to explode the block while its being inserted. Because of spaces in the file name, quotes (") must be around the path.
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Dec 23, 2011
So I can run the following code from the command line with no problem:
(WRK-Insert_Standards_Block '("S:\AUTOCAD\_Common\Linetypes\CSW_Civil-Linetype"))
(WRK-Insert_Standards_Block '("S:\AUTOCAD\_Common\Linetypes\CSW_Survey-Linetype"))
(WRK-Layer_Insert_all "CSW-X-FM_Layers_List")
However when I put it into a macro (custom command to be used from the ribbon) it spits out the following in my command line:
(WRK-Insert_Standards_Block '("S:
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Sep 18, 2012
Is it possible to write a Macro in the CUI that opens a drawing in Read-Only mode? Limitation : AutoCAD LT.
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Feb 7, 2012
I'm trying to create a macro for a toolbar button to open a third party program. Basically we want to open a custom .exe application from a button on the ACAD toolbar.
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Jul 3, 2012
" Convertion of AUTOLISP base routines to Diesel MACRO based routine to be used in a AUTOCAD LT based platform "
Here i am attaching the lisp file for ready reference.
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Jun 27, 2012
How can I get the position (POPn ) where a menu is, considering the other menus loaded (ACAD, Expres.. etc)
For example:
File Edit View Insert . .Express WIndow Help DOBLADO PCSMEN. .. and I need to know the position of DOBLADO.
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Sep 19, 2013
I'd like to change a layer's color from command line because of a user icon. I figured out from previous topics that I should use macro similar to this: ^C^C_filedia;0;-la;s;Verdeckt (ISO);c;1;l;dashed;;_filedia;1;re;
(I want to use this macro to change layer's linetype, too, but that's not the point)
The only problem with this macro: layer's name contains a space therefore Autocad tries to recognize Verdeckt as a command (and macro interrupts there) instead of setting Verdeckt (ISO) as the current layer. I've tried using different quote marks, none of them worked (' and " and <>). I hope there's a method for entering a parameter that contains space.
Software: Inventor Series 2011 SP1 x64
OS: Vista Business x64
CPU: E6400
RAM: 2*2Gb GeIL
VGA: Quadro FX 550
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Oct 24, 2013
I am upgrading from 2010 to 2013 and am having a problem with my image tile menu not showing my slides. The dialog box comes up but none of the slides can be viewed. I am using the macro $I=acadbja.GENPLAN1 $I=* Is there an updated command the super cedes this command?
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Oct 24, 2006
During the creation of an Enterprise CUI, I somehow was left with Unresolved Menu groups, as shown in the attachment. Any thoughts on how these can be removed?
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Sep 13, 2011
We have had custom toolbars for many years that included custom pop menus etc. Now that we are running cuix customizations how do I edit these customized pop menus? Do I need to rewrite this stuff in lisp, vba, .net, whatever?
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Dec 29, 2011
I would like a small menu to pop up near the cursor like the middle mouse button menu, but based on some other function key or quick key shortcut.
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Oct 8, 2013
I am trying to add an on and off checkmark via lisp to an item in a pull down menu.
It can be done with diesel but only on system variables.
In my case i can't use sysvars - only lisp.
I tried (menucmd ....) but I get nil.
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Apr 7, 2012
I have some legacy menus that are quite large. I have tried to create a new workspace, and that seemed to work o.k.
UNTIL I used menuload to try to load the old menu. At the point all the defualt workspaces were wiped out somehow.
I would like to have access to both the default workspaces and then also by switching to a custom workspace, my legacy menus.
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Jan 1, 2010
I read Robert Bell's document “Migrating from MNU to the CUI” (Autodesk University 2007) with interest. I have been using 2005 up until now and I am finally forcing myself to get to grips with 2010.
I managed to get it to work after much trial and error through the CUI transfer interface.My customizing makes use of a lot of swapping pull-down menus, which swap in and out based on current later setting.A typical command would be:
(MENUCMD "P15=RCASPOPS.mfireeqp") where RCASPOPS is my swapping menu loaded at POP15.
Then I would use (MENUCMD "P15=*") to force the “mfireeqp” area of the pull-down menu to display.Trouble is, when I CUIload RCASPOPS, it does not seem to recognize the various areas of the menu.Here is a part of that subsection of RCASPOPS:
***MFIREEQP
[FireProtEquipLayers]
[--]
[0]0;
[defpoints]defpoints;
[X-Refs]x----ref;
[code]...
Typically the whole of RCASPOPS is loaded but when I try to force it to display, the whole of it pops on the screen (well, the top of the file does anyway) and not just the subsection I want.
Is this a syntax issue with the newer AutoCad?Also notice that I use the -> and <- for fly-out sections of the menu - is there a syntax issue with this? I notice that the future support of drop down swapping menus is not guaranteed. What is the alternative?
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Aug 26, 2008
I have made an extra CUI that is loaded as a partial CUI.
Now I want to add a context-sensitive shortcut menus like this: POP504, OBJECT_AEC_DOOR.
The problem is that this shortcut menu only shows up if I add the shortcut menu to the main CUI file. If I add it in some partial CUI it never shows.
Does shortcut menus only work from within the main CUI?
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May 17, 2013
Switching from 2010 win xp to 2014 win 7. I need my specific user interface , and cant replicate it because of this issue :
I used to press context menu key on keybard to make edit menus pop up . In 2014 even though its same settings (show context menus and time sentive click) i ve lost this ability .
Either menus dont appear at all or they are replaced by the small command line context menu. I think this suggest new command line features are messing with right click options any variable i can turn off , or else to go back to normal.
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Feb 15, 2013
I have a company .cuix menu that is loaded as a partial menu to the main acad.cuix file. I want to delete all the toolbars and pull down menus associated with it and leave the other stuff in place. This is in Autocad 2011 but should also translate to 2013. So far, I have tried opening the CUI menu, going to the company.cuix partial menu and deleting the toolbars. Then I hit save, then Apply. Toolbars disappear and pulldown menus go away. But when I reload AutoCAD they come back.
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Jun 27, 2013
through the groups here I have found the redefine screenmenu command, but I cannot find how to get the screen menu up on the screen as it is not an option in the display options any longer.
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