I have about 30 profiles with water pipe lines that I need to measure all their vertical angles. since the vetical scale is exaggerated so I can't use the acad angular icon tool bar. Only thing I cant think of is to block each run then import them back in at 1/10 in y direction. How to get this done faster or more direct by any other methods.
View 6 Repliesi know DIMANGULAR command will let me draw a dimension to display the angle between two lines, but is there a way for my commandbar to show me what the angle is rather than draw a dimension?
I often want to simply know the angle but not display it in the drawing, and it'd be good if there was a command/lisp which showed me in the command line area, or perhaps a pop up window, similar to what the TLEN lisp does here: URL....
I have a drawing which contains about 100 "areas". These areas are closed polylines. I would like to get a total area of all these polylines.
I have tried using AutoCAD 2002's AREA command, but I am only able to select one item at a time, (AREA, Add, Object). This is fine for calculating a few areas. It gives me a running total of each item that I select.
Using the LIST command works OK for a few items, but you still have to wade through all the other information to get the area info for each item.
Is there a way to select crossing ALL the areas that I have, and have it return a total?
what I am attempting -
Pick a line
Pick a starting point on the line
Pick a ending point on the line
Pick side to offset
create list of offset points
Create a new line with a offset
I think I could do this using brute force, but would prefer a mathematical solution.
the resulting arc-fit pline has each pline segment converted into two arcs, the common radii of which are perpendicular to the original segment (unless direction of curverature changes)
the resulting arcs can be calculated given the angle of the tangents for each segment.
the factors for determining the tangents at vertex N are:
deflection angle at N
deflection angle at N+1 (90° or non-extant = not a factor, 0° or 180° = segment is the tangent)
deflection angle at N-1 (90° or non-extant = not a factor, 0° or 180° = segment is the tangent)
ratio of lengths of segments (N , N+1) and (N , N-1)
I can find the tangents when N±1 = 90° and when the segment lengths are equal but i can't figure out how to compute the tangent if these 3 factors are varied.
I don't want to use (command"._PEDIT" pl "_FIT""") because i need to collect the arc data anyway and at a high frame rate. The data will be used to further compute a spline frame that best fits a quadratic spline to the arcs. That part i know how to do!
I´m triyng to do a autolisp routine to calculate the perimeter of a drawing with several entities like arc, polyline, spline, lines and circles.
In the web i found out a autolisp routine that calculate this but it doesnt recognizes circles.
I need that the circles can be recognized, does some one knows how i can do that?
So I've done a lot of searching this morning on "angles", and I couldn't find anything for getting the "out-of-plane" angle.
I'd like the user to pick two points, and return somehow the angle out of plane.
how to transform the angle (unit direction) of nested XLINE / RAY (at any deep level) from MCS to WCS recently i have download the following functions (by gile & Vladimir Nesterovsky) whem i call (MXV) with matrix [returned from nentselp)] and unit direction of nested XLINE it returns nil
;; MXV
;; Applies a transformation matrix to a vector -Vladimir Nesterovsky-
;;
;; Arguments : une matrice et un vecteur
;; return : a vector
[code]....
I need very very often to know the angle between two surfaces to write cnc programms...At the moment i draw allways two lines normal to the line between the two surfaces an use then the angle measuring tool.Works good, faster then bks and dimensioning, but need also time and always need to delete the lines after...
Is it possible to get a lisp which ask für 1 point on the first surface, 1 point on the other surface and two points on the line between the 2 surfaces? So the lisp know 3 points of each surface and can give out the angle between... Should be allways between 0-180°
So it needs only 4 klicks to get a angle! That would be so great! Is there a lisp programmer who can make this possible?
I am writing a routine that will place a piece of text at a specified point along a polyline. My problem is to determine the angle for the text. It needs to be the same as the segment of the polyline that it falls on. Just can't get my head around how to get that angle?
I can get a list of the vertex point of the polyline, but how do I determine the segment the point falls on?
The attached image shows a table that I created as a AEC Object from my Civil 3D Alignment (i can turn it to 'MText' and then 'Text' in one or two steps). What I need is a routine, or anything, that fills the third column with an information based on the second column: the deflection angle, something like that:
Curve Angle Type of angle
C1 22°30'00'' 2
C2 39°21'28'' 3
C3 44°59'59'' 3
C4 45°00'00'' 4
C5 45°00'01'' 5
Is there something I could read to study to solve it myself and specify my own angles/types of angles?
With all of you fine teachers, I have the know-how to get the start and end values of a line.
Do you think there is a way to get a point returned that represents the true intersection of the two lines, without having to involke a user defined "getpoint" function using "intersect" osnap?
I want to construct lines between every two line ending point by multi selectio window instead of drawing it manually between lines ending point ?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI am trying to draw a line between two lines and I put together the following. It works great if the start/end points are perpendicular to each other. How do I solve if line one start point is in a positive direction and line two is in a negative direction?
(defun c:test ()
(setq L1 (car (entsel "
Select the first line: "))
L2 (car (entsel "
Select the second line: "))
)
[code]....
I want to get the minimum and maximum x, y coordinate values of selected lines. In other words, i want to find the top, bottom, left and right edges of a set of lines.
Is it possible to achieve this with a lisp code?
Project involves repeatedly mirroring a line by selecting mutiple lines to do the mirroring. Probably sounds confusing.
The progress so far can be found here: [URL] ........
Labeling lines with their lengths,
I got the attached lisp file from the web which automatically labels the lines with their length. Resulting the values of the length in the absolute values of the length instead of saying that the length is in inch. i.e, i need to remove the inch sign (") from the suffix of the length.
The PARTS LISTS on our old drawings are simply text entities and lines. Some are MTEXT. But our new drawing template has us creating our parts list using the actual AutoCAD TABLES entity.
I'm looking for the best method to go from lines and text in AutoCAD, to an AutoCAD table. As of now, I have to retype everything since I can't select a column/row or group of text entities, copy/paste into a table.
Any LISP function that will allow me to go from TEXT and LINES to a TABLE? I've tried B2E (lisp name) but it's not working - found that on a lisp site somewhere.
I need lisp that do a line between 4 lines.
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I use the QUERY command to create basemaps and often the lines that are imported read upside down or backwards or however you prefer to look at it. Most often, if I look at the XY coords of these backwards lines, the End X coordinate is of a higher value than the Start X coordinate.
Looking for something that would compare the two X coordinates of a line, do some sort of an IF Start X > End X, and if its true, store the XYZ coords of the Start and End in some variable, and swap them.
I need a lisp code to convert all Lines, Polylines, Arcs and Splines to Polylines with 0.4 width.
I prepare this:
(defun c:CH2pl ( / SS);changes all lines, plines, arcs and splines to POLYLINE with 0.4 width(if (setq SS (ssget "_X" '((0 . "LINE"))))(command "_.pedit" "m" SS "" "Y" "w" 0.4 ""))(if (setq SS (ssget "_X" '((0 . "*POLYLINE"))))(command "_.pedit" "m" SS "" "w" 0.4 ""))(if (setq SS (ssget "_X" '((0 . "ARC"))))(command "_.pedit" "m" SS "" "Y" "w" 0.4 ""))(if (setq SS (ssget "_X" '((0 . "SPLINE"))))(command "_.pedit" "m" SS "" "Y" 10 "w" 0.4 "")))
But I want pure lisp code in a professional way!
I want to make many object cooper lines in autocad and each line has some data about its length, size, type etc. that can then extract to excel as a Bill of materials.
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I am working on a script. I need to select all lines and polylines and set there linetype scale to 1.
I'd take a simple lisp routine if that would be easier.
I need to divide thousands of lines into half, but AutoCAD divide command can only allow you to select one line at a time.Is there any way we can divide multiple lines at once.
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