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By Ellen Finkelstein AutoLISP offers powerful programming capabilities to AutoCAD, but you don’t need to be a programmer to use it. You can fairly easily create a simple custom command that can make your work go more quickly. In this tutorial, you’ll create a custom command that draws a red circle in any location and with any radius. […]
By Ellen Finkelstein Tommy Holder submitted a different approach to creating fillets–one that includes drawing the lines. For the earlier routine, see “Reduce mouse clicks and increase productivity with AutoLISP.”
Tommy’s approach is unique, I think. Instead of drawing the lines first, the AutoLISP routine prompts you for points, which are the endpoints of the lines. Here are […]
By Ellen Finkelstein This is a guest post by Sanjay Kulkarni, an AutoCAD programmer. You can read more about him at the end of this post.
The number of mouse-clicks required to perform a task is generally a good indicator of productivity. The fewer the number of clicks, the less time required–hence more productivity.
In this post we […]
By Ellen Finkelstein This is a guest post by Sanjay Kulkarni, an AutoCAD programmer. You can read more about him at the end of this post.
In the current era of globalization, many times you may have to work on drawings received from others. Sometimes, you may not be able to control the quality of the drawings you […]
By Ellen Finkelstein This is a guest post by Sanjay Kulkarni, an AutoCAD programmer.
This post describes the method to load an AutoLISP program in an open drawing.
Some basic & fundamental information before we move to the procedure
An AutoLISP program runs inside (in the same workspace of) an open drawing. Therefore it is necessary to load […]
By Ellen Finkelstein This is a guest post by Sanjay Kulkarni, an AutoCAD programmer. You can read more about him at the end of this post.
In an earlier post, Ellen showed how to align a rectangle with a line on the fly. You can easily create the same effect using AutoLISP. This AutoLISP routine is simple, and […]
By Ellen Finkelstein Question: B.N. asks how he can get his AutoLISP routines from an earlier release into AutoCAD 2007 so that they’re always loaded and ready to go.
Answer: An easy way is to type the AutoLISP routines in a file and save it as anything.lsp. Then choose Tools> AutoLISP> Load Application. Browse to anything.lsp and drag […]
By Ellen Finkelstein In my earlier “Break objects quickly” tip, I have 4 routines that help you break objects more quickly than the standard AutoCAD command.
Febien Mosen sent me another routine, SCISSORS, that has 3 features:
You don’t need to preselect the object; you just click the point where you want to break Only if there are […]
By Ellen Finkelstein A quick way to load an AutoLISP program is to drag it from Windows Explorer onto AutoCAD‘s drawing area. (Position the Windows Explorer window so you can see the AutoCAD drawing area or drag onto the AutoCAD taskbar button, wait until AutoCAD displays and then drag onto the drawing area.) You can even drag […]
By Clement Hiew
Using ChatGPT to create AutoLISP scripts for AutoCAD can be an effective way to streamline your design process. AutoLISP is a dialect of the programming language LISP (List Processing language) that’s used specifically for Autodesk’s AutoCAD software.
Here’s a general guide on how you could use ChatGPT to create AutoCAD Lisp:
1. Define Your […]
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