Drawing Standards Dialog Box

Does anyone have a lisp routine that opens a dialog box when starting a new drawing that only gives the user the department standardoptions. I am developing the CAD department in our company and I only want lower level drafters to have the option to choose from our standards and not create new ones.

This can be controlled with multiple Profiles and utilizing support paths/templates/Tool Palettes/etc. Other than that, you'll need a programmer. There are things like this that do exist but it probably won't be perfect or complete for your exact needs.

Does anyone have a lisp routine that opens a dialog box when starting a new drawing that only gives the user the department standardoptions.

This has been discussed here (and other forums) many times. You simply need to customize your deployment, the profile(s), the enterprise, and main CUI(x)'s, the application icons, etc.

FWIW - We have enterprise support located on the network (read-only to most users), and have incorporated into our deployment custom support which is located on the user's personal network space to allow them to customize, and have their settings portable... for example if they log out of their PC, and into the laptop in the conference room, their settings are automagically mapped in.

... I only want lower level drafters to have the option to choose from our standards and not create new ones.

Standards are one thing, but be wary of assuming the [CAD] Nazi role as others have done.

 

"No [CODE] for You!"

 

"Come back one year!"

 

Remember....

 

I hate CAD Nazis, but CAD Numpties can make you want to scream!

 

Numpties require training...

 

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In [CAD Standards], everyone is expected to obey the rules and regulations or he will be punished. To this, the [Cheif Operations Officer (COO)] assented.

 

Then he ordered that one hundred and eighty [numpties] be selected from among the [company numpties] to receive [CAD] training under [The CAD Manager] who divided the [numpties] into two [production teams] and made two of the [COO's] most favorite [numpties] their [Supervisors]. [The CAD Manager] then said to the [COO], "A good [production team] cannot be built without strict discipline. Although those [numpties] are [company numpties], discipline must be enforced without exception. So please send me two [Senior numpties] to enforce [CAD Standards]. " The [COO] consented.

 

The [CAD Standards we soon implemented]. [The CAD Manager] first [must make] known the rules and regulations to be obeyed and then explained to the [numpties] how to execute such commands as "[Use proper Osnaps]", "[Purge All]", "[Copy Objects]", "[Save the drawing]", "[Create a New drawing]", "[Archive the project]" and so on.

 

After he was finished with this, he asked the [numpties], "Is it all clear now?" "[Sure, man]," the [numpties] replied. But [The CAD Manager] explained the rules and regulations once again and then had the drummers beat out martial music.

 

At this, he shouted commands such as "[Use proper Osnaps]" and "[Copy Objects] " Instead of carrying out his commands, the [numpties] started giggling. [The CAD Manager] said, turning very serious, "It apparently is my fault not to have made the rules and regulations and commands plain enough. " So he reiterated what he had said before, explaining very carefully the rules and regulations and the way to carry out the commands.

 

After that he once again had the drummers beat out martial music and started giving commands. However, he met with only rings of laughter. Now [The CAD Manager] looked very stern and said seriously, "If I had not made sufficiently clear the discipline and the commands, it would be my fault.

 

Now that everything has been made clear and still you have failed to execute my orders, the [Supervisors] must be held responsible. " He ordered that the two [Supervisors] be beheaded immediately in public, as a warning to all.

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I know of a major project around 500 construction sites where every plan had to be the same, a simple way was to have a company menu that had all line types layers etc and the option of what was being drawn so this could be controlled, so rather than "Line" you would draw "brick wall".

You can redfine Autocad commands if say you do L a message can pop up "command not allowed" Save can do all sorts of stuff before saving is a big job to program but not hard.

At simplest level "everyone is expected to obey the rules and regulations or he/she will be punished".

We have some defacto stuff so you can pick what you want to draw next, there is a lisp that is real cool that you pick an object and it sets all paremeters to that object and invokes create another object of the same type no need for line circle etc. I renamed it so trying to find original.

You can redfine Autocad commands if say you do L a message can pop up "command not allowed" Save can do all sorts of stuff before saving is a big job to program but not hard.

You could always simply Veto a list of commands: Blocking AutoCAD Commands from .NET