AutoLISP Routines

CABINET draws elevations of cabinet faces from dimensions you give it — the width and height of the carcass, then the offsets that set out the drawers and doors within it. Change a number and you get a different cabinet; you are not editing linework, you are describing the cabinet and letting the routine draw it. It is by Bob Thomas of Thomas Enterprises in San Rafael, … [Read more...] about CABINET LISP: Parametric Cabinet Face Elevations for AutoCAD

Name: CUMDIST Description: This routine is just like the Autocad Distance command with the exception that it allows you to pick more than 2 consecutive points. The routine will display the cumulative distance and the distance between the last two points picked on the command line. Type: AutoCAD AutoLISP Routine Author: Don Jacobsen File Size: 1 Kb Cost: Free Worked on: AutoCAD … [Read more...] about CUMDIST Lisp Routine

This routine labels boundary lines with their bearing and distance, and it does so with more control than most free tools of its kind. The author's own summary, from the top of the file, explains who it is for: architects and civil engineers "who don't have a cogo package and need to label boundary lines". You pick two points and it writes the bearing, the distance, or both, … [Read more...] about COGO Bearing and Distance Labels for AutoCAD (Free LISP)

Every library has one thing in it that is not really a tool. This is that thing. CLOCK draws an analogue clock face in your drawing, with hands set to the current time and the date spelled out. It is dated January 1986 and credited to Kelvin R. Throop, which is a pen name rather than a person — a stock pseudonym borrowed from science fiction magazines and used by more … [Read more...] about CLOCK LISP: A 1986 Analogue Clock for AutoCAD

CHT drags selected text back to your standard text style. Select a mixed bag of annotation that has come in from three different sources over five years, run the command, and everything that is single-line text is switched to the style called STANDARD. It is by Craig Carr of Superior Designs, written in 1994 with a copyright running to 1997. What it does, precisely It steps … [Read more...] about CHT LISP: Force Selected AutoCAD Text to One Style

CHGTEXT copies the height and style of one piece of text onto others. Pick a piece of text that looks the way you want, select everything that should match it, and both properties are applied across the selection. It is by Art Whitton, dated 27 November 1996 — the same author as the polyline chainage routine on this site, and written to the same standard: a full variable … [Read more...] about CHGTEXT LISP: Match Text Height and Style in AutoCAD