AutoCAD Visual LISP / AutoLISP :: Create Plot A0 Or A0+ Onto Several A3?

Mar 20, 2013

Is it possible to create a lips that does the following:

- In the Modelspace

- Get 2 points to create a plot window / give two points. (get point 1, get point 2, list points)

- Divide the window into A3 size windows

- plot scale 1:100 / prompts to ask

- Plot / Print the A3 size windows with the given / preset configuration(s)

- Perhaps even add a number to each page.

In other words, Plot / Print a A2, A1, A0 or bigger onto several A3 pages.

Depending on how big the page is, number of A3 pages, plotscale 1:100

Or asks what plot scale I want to use.The only thing I think I will need is something like:

Get point 1, get point 2, List the points. So I can set the window.

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AutoCAD Visual LISP / AutoLISP :: Plot Transparency Option In PLOT Dialog Box

Sep 11, 2012

Where else do they keep this setting? I only have found it in Active Layout in extended dada

(entget (vlax-vla-object->ename(vla-get-activelayout (vla-get-activedocument(vlax-get-acad-object)))) '("*"))
The last pice of extended data is:
 ("PLOTTRANSPARENCY" (1071 . 0))
When i change it to 1
(setq layout(vla-get-activelayout (vla-get-activedocument(vlax-get-acad-object))))
(vla-getXdata layout "PLOTTRANSPARENCY" 'type 'data)
(vlax-safearray-fill data  '("PLOTTRANSPARENCY" 1))
(vla-setXdata layout  type data)

it stays there (extended data), but the setting in Plot dialog box doesn't change!!! And it still prints no transparency.

It takes to save the drawing and reopen it again to see the change.

The command -PLOT does not have this setting as well, so my options back to VBA or Lisp, but HOW?

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Aug 30, 2012

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Is it possible from AutoLISP in 2000?

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Oct 3, 2012

R2012 win7

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Everything seems to run but when it comes to the plotting, AutoCAD crashes.

Findfile works fine:

Command: (findfile "\\bcnymfilp01\Parts_Labels\50981.plt")
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Feb 21, 2001

Is there a way for me to change a layers plot style from one to another with LISP?

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Jul 9, 2013

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Mar 18, 2013

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How to make it not change this setting for the model space tab?

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Mar 20, 2013

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Jan 23, 2012

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and zoo.

All my layouts will be printed. The files will be created. The filename will be the attribute name (different in each layout viexports).

[ACAD2011 CIVIL3d]

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Jan 27, 2012

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Jun 28, 2012

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call up the page setup manager (while in model space) and click modify, you can then check the radio button to "display plot styles" in the top-right corner. But when you have around 100 - 200 blocks to change, that process can be rather time consuming and cumbersome!

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Jan 2, 2014

We used a block which contains deisel expressions for our plot stamp. When we publish through the sheet set manager it shows a temp folder where the drawings are spooled to instead of the actual drawing saved path. We can fix this buy turning off background plotting when we publish, but I was wondering if there is a way to show the saved path instead of the spoolled path when publishing in the background.

Below is the expression found in our plot stamp block.
 
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Xeon W3550 3.07 GHz
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I’m trying to create a plot command that reads settings in from a variable stored in a text file but its becoming muddled up somewhere.

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The manual way in autocad is typing it ("<45") but I just want to calculate angle from the start point to cursor point. and then once hitting tab or a key or a new command, it will lock with that angle. How can I go about programming this.

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Apr 17, 2012

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0, 0,0, 0,6
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May 28, 2012

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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Feb 15, 2013

I have been using one routine very successfully to create a pline in modelspace that has the outline of the chosen viewports in the drawing. This one works great.

Now I am trying add other routines that I've done to better fit my needs. If I use each routine individually at the command line they work, but when I use all in a single command I got the following errors:

The routine SetColor - does not change color to Bylayer The routine RectWidth - ; error: bad SSGET list

Why?

See the attached file for more details and be free to improve whatever you want in my routines because they are very basic.

And, if I am not asking to much, is that possible to not be prompt to select objects? I mean, the routine could automatically select all viewports in the drawing...

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Is there a way to add search paths, modify variables, load menu, set the automatic start of a *.Lsp or *.Fas, during installation of the application, without opening AutoCAD?

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Jul 13, 2012

i have created an Autolisp routine that creates a drawing made up of structural members, x-refs & surfaces based on a few different user inputs. I now want the program to insert the drawing as a block rather than individual elements. My Idea was simply to use the block command in the lisp routine to create a block and then have the drawing create itself in block editor, and close once it has done. however I am having difficulty thinking of a way that I can get AutoCAD to automatically name this block depending on other blocks in the drawing, i.e. in sequence. The name is irrelevent really, but it would make sence for it to be logical, so... if the last block inserted was "b7" then the next one should be "b8" and so on.

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Aug 6, 2012

How to create macros of a drawing and then hw can we change the drawing by editing the macro. E.g.. I have drawn a circle of 30 mm dia.. than need to crate macros for same and then by changing the dia of circle in macros I want to create new circle of 50 mm dia.

Another thing I wanted to ask is what is difference between visual lisp and visual basic. Which is easier??

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Jan 4, 2013

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(defun C:22 ()
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Sep 10, 2013

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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 "
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