Detail blocks?

Hi all, I'm a bit of an autocad newb so bear with me here

I'm doing a project at the moment for my engineering degree and I'm working on some 2D plans for a steel shed. I used autocad last year for another project and I was using a function that automatically creates blocks that scale up a particular area in a circle, but keep the scale the same so annotations still work for it (i.e. a 2:1 section of a 20mm bar is still annotated as 20mm not 40mm.)

Here's a picture in case its not so clear:

I cant for the life of me remember how I did this though, and I've no idea what the function that does it is called so I cant find it in the help topics. Anyone know how to do it?

Im using autocad 2010

Any help appreciated

Sounds like it might have been a lisp routine.

Don't think so, no idea what that is...

I'm sure it was just a wizard or tool or something, you could draw a shape around what you wanted, and set the scale, then it just made a block which you could then edit afterwards to add detail as above.

Were you working in a layout using viewports?

No this is in the model itself

No this is in the model itself

Maybe you were using another piece of AutoDesk software? Something other than plain vanilla AutoCAD?

Detail lisp routine available here. Works in model space.

http://www.autocode.com/lisp/examples.html

Here's another lisp routine.

http://cadtips.cadalyst.com/node/tiplisting?keywords=enlarge%20detail

I still say doing it with a viewport in your layout is the best way of handling it.

That's possible actually, I may have made it on the university computers rather than at home. If its not an obvious feature then maybe it was a plugin for it or something. Ill have a look tomorrow. Cheers

Actually detail.lsp looks like the right one, and detail was the command i first tried to do this. How can I install it to try it out?

Actually detail.lsp looks like the right one, and detail was the command i first tried to do this. How can I install it to try it out?

Read the CADTutor AutoCAD FAQ.

http://www.cadtutor.net/faq/questions/28/How+do+I+use+an+AutoLISP+routine%3F

Thats awesome, worked perfectly. Thanks very much

You're entirely welcomed. Glad to hear you got the results you were looking for.

That looks like you where using Autocad Mechanical...