AutoLISP Routines

SHEETSTRIP is the inverse of SHEETECHO: select something on the current sheet and its twin is deleted from every other sheet too. This is how you retract a preliminary stamp, a revision cloud or a superseded note that was previously copied across the whole set. What SheetStrip does SHEETSTRIP removes from chosen layouts; SHEETSTRIPALL removes from every other … [Read more...] about SHEETSTRIP LISP: Remove Matching Objects From Every Layout

SHEETSHUFFLE gives you a single dialog listing every layout in the drawing, where they can be dragged into order, sorted, renamed, prefixed, suffixed, added, deleted, copied and searched — with everything applied at once when you close it. What SheetShuffle does AutoCAD’s own tab handling is one right-click menu per tab. On a drawing with thirty sheets … [Read more...] about SHEETSHUFFLE LISP: Reorder and Rename AutoCAD Layout Tabs

SHEETNUMBER renumbers paper space layouts sequentially, with an optional prefix and suffix. Layouts are renumbered in tab order — the order they appear along the bottom of the screen — not alphabetically. What SheetNumber does So drag the tabs into the order you want the set issued in, then run this, and the numbering follows. That is the right way … [Read more...] about SHEETNUMBER LISP: Renumber Paper Space Layouts in Order

Keep one spreadsheet listing every drawing in the job and what its title block should say. SHEETFILL makes the current drawing find its own row and update itself. Run it on every drawing and the whole set is consistent with the register — which is the only way a drawing list and a set of sheets ever stay in step. What SheetFill does The CSV format. The first … [Read more...] about SHEETFILL LISP: Fill Title Blocks From a CSV Register

SHEETECHO copies objects to the same position on other paper space layouts. The use is anything that has to appear identically on every sheet: a revision cloud, a north point, a preliminary stamp, a client logo, a standard note block. Draw it once and echo it to the rest. What SheetEcho does SHEETECHO lets you choose target layouts from a list. SHEETECHOALL copies … [Read more...] about SHEETECHO LISP: Copy Objects to the Same Spot on Layouts

SEGREPORT reports every segment of a polyline in full detail, as an AutoCAD table, a text file or a CSV. This is the tool for producing a setting-out schedule from a boundary — or for checking a polyline that measures wrong somewhere and you cannot see where. What SegmentReport does For each segment you get the segment number, start and end X and Y, start … [Read more...] about SEGREPORT LISP: Report Every Segment of a Polyline