Tables

Afternoon gentlemen

As a I am a novice with AutoCAD. If I use the ID command, is possible to insert the values into a table within the drawing, or would I have to go down the block and attribute route!

Kev

Afternoon gentlemen

 

As a I am a novice with AutoCAD. If I use the ID command, is possible to insert the values into a table within the drawing, or would I have to go down the block and attribute route!

 

Kev

I dont really understand what you are attempting to accomplish here? do you want to get the values of your blocks into a table?

I believe the ID command gives the user X, Y, and Z coordinates doesn't it?

ID command

"ID lists the X, Y, and Z values of the specified point and stores the coordinate of the specified point as the last point. You can reference the last point by entering @ at the next prompt that requests a point."

Think I just answered my own question.

You can copy and paste the result from the id command from the bottom command line create a table with text in it first say with each text having x.

Then just double click the text and ctrl v (paste) we have done this where we only want a couple of points.

If you want to do lots search for a lisp routine

Actually I am looking for a lisp to do this very thing, but no luck yet. If I come up with something I will post it.

Rick

I dont really understand what you are attempting to accomplish here? do you want to get the values of your blocks into a table?

Hi todouble22, as ReMark points out using the ID Command gives the user the X Y Z coordinates. Which in turn I would like to insert them in a table automatically as I ID Points.

I have copied and pasted as suggested by BIGAL in this example, it was labourious! The X,Y,Z values I changed to E,N,H

Thanks motoxrcr, I would be interested if you do find a lisp routine, to date I have not.

There must be some way of achieving this!

Thanks

Kevin

The zip file found here has a lsp named Tabcord, it might be what you're looking for.

The zip file found here has a lsp named Tabcord, it might be what you're looking for.

Hi lpseifert, I have tried that. Not quite what I looking for. It will only give ends of lines, arcs etc for the polyline.

Thanks

Kevin

Kev, I use a lisp that Lee wrote for me, posted here, that perhaps doesn't do exactly what you want (you get the X,Y,Z printed as a text) but it might be of some help.

Thanks Tiger, will have a look.

Kev

Kev, I use a lisp that Lee wrote for me, posted here, that perhaps doesn't do exactly what you want (you get the X,Y,Z printed as a text) but it might be of some help.

Tiger, Looked at the lisp. Nice one for inserting coordinates for points into a drawing. Thanks

There must be a way for inserting the picked points into a table!

Kev

Kev

What I ended up doing is make a block, I used a donut and gave it a name of pt-1, made another pt-2 etc. inserted them at my points and then did a dataextraction. Filter out the info you do not want and have it do a table of the info. Works ok but can be tedius if you have a lot of points.

Rick

Rick

Thats what I do as well and you are correct, very tedious.

Kev

Tiger, Looked at the lisp. Nice one for inserting coordinates for points into a drawing. Thanks

 

There must be a way for inserting the picked points into a table!

 

Kev

THe lisp that Lee gave you does just that, what you need to do is figure out how to use it so it does what you want to do.

For instance, the lisp returns all vertices of a polyline right? so instead of just picking points, draw a polyline, run the lisp and voiila!

THe lisp that Lee gave you does just that, what you need to do is figure out how to use it so it does what you want to do.

 

For instance, the lisp returns all vertices of a polyline right? so instead of just picking points, draw a polyline, run the lisp and voiila!

I'm not really all that clued up with Lisp routines, but will have another look!

Found this over the weekend. Just trying to tweak it, seems OK.

http://www.trewcorp.com/autocad-lisp-routines.html

Kev