AutoLISP Routines

Nineteen commands for mechanical detailing in one file, plus fourteen drawings holding the geometric tolerance symbols they insert. Drill holes, tapped holes, counterbored and countersunk holes, dowels, section arrows, break marks, feature control frames, datum symbols and a set of text tools. It is by Shirley Westbrook and dated 6 May 1989, which makes it one of the oldest … [Read more...] about Mechanical Drafting LISP: 19 Hole and Tolerance Commands

Name: The Master Suite Description: Another collection of various text editing, layer editing and other lisp routines placed into a neat and tidy toolbar and menu. Type: AutoCAD AutoLISP Routine Author: See files File Size: 75 Kb Cost: Free Worked on: AutoCAD Download File: Master.zip … [Read more...] about Master Suite Lisp Routines

MLAYER moves everything on a layer. Type the layer name, and every object on it — wherever it is in the drawing — is gathered up and handed to the MOVE command for you to place. It is by Paul Standing, dated 1995, and he also wrote the three-tangent circle and double offset routines on this site. Selecting by layer, not by window The point of it is the selection, … [Read more...] about MLAYER LISP: Move Every Object on an AutoCAD Layer

Somebody's working toolset, packaged properly. Nine AutoLISP files, a menu, and 125 button icons, arranged into five toolbars: Navigator, My Bonus, Misc, Image and MyMultilines. What makes it worth a look is not the routines so much as the packaging. Most personal collections in this library arrive as a folder of files and a list of command names to memorise. This one arrives … [Read more...] about MBA Collection: A Personal AutoCAD Toolset with Toolbars

This draws a leader line and then puts you straight into placing the text at the end of it — two operations that always go together, joined into one command. It is from Superior Designs, the same source as the CHT text standardiser, the LS layer setter and the ADD calculator on this site. It will not work as downloaded This needs saying before anything else, because … [Read more...] about LE LISP: Draw a Leader Then Place Its Text in AutoCAD

ZONE answers a question that comes up constantly on planning and civil drawings: what is the total area of everything on this layer? You pick any object on the layer you care about, choose area or length, and it finds every polyline on that layer in the drawing and gives you the total. It is by David Bethel, dated May 2004, and the header credits the original idea to David … [Read more...] about ZONE LISP: Total Polyline Area or Length by Layer in AutoCAD