Macro for temporarily setting polyline width

^C^C_plinewid;25;pline;/plinewid;0;

I might be onto a looser here but I am looking for a way of drawing a poly line of 25 units wide then resetting the polyline width to 0. This is for LT so macro's only please.

The above macro does set the width and lets me draw my polyline once I finish the line the macro doesn't continue to reset the polyline widths. Is it even possible to this in a single macro?

One polyline segment or more than one?

Sorry ReMark, have been at lunch. Sometimes one segment sometimes 2. It's for under kitchen wall unit lighting.

Have you given any consideration to an alternate approach? For example, how about a macro that draws a polyline of a specified width without changing the changing the global PLINEWID value?

No, I thought that would produce a pointed line rather than a solid rectangle.

Hmmm......I was thinking of it more like a temporary override.

(macro removed as it wasn't a true diesel macro; sorry about that folks)

Sorry ReMark, that's too LISPy for me these days. I've moved company and am back on LT now.

Look again Glen...it's a diesel macro.

I was wrong. Don't look.

Hang on, I ran that from my toolpallate and it said

Command: (setq LISP command is not available.
Command: pwid Unknown command "PWID".  Press F1 for help.
Command: (getvar LISP command is not available.
Command: "plinewid"))
Unknown command ""PLINEWID"))".  Press F1 for help.

Will try from the ribbon.

Nope not working. I've added it to the cui as a new command. Is there something I'm missing/not doing correctly to use Diesel programmes within LT?

My bad then. I really did think it was a diesel macro. Now I'm not so sure given what you posted above. My apologies. I'll continue to research it. In the meantime maybe someone will come along and save me from myself. LoL

ReMark that is definitely LISP, diesel has things like $M=$(getvar,plinewid) in it. Though I do believe that in Full Autocad diesel and LISP can be mixed into a macro.

The problem with a macro is when it starts a command you can't just exit out after an arbitrary amount of points or it just cancels the rest of the macro.

This is a bit long winded but as it stands it will allow you to draw a polyline up to 6 segments in length, and you can cancel out after 1 or 2 or 3 etc

^C^C^C_pl;\\;_pe;l;w;25;;_pl; \;_pe;l;w;25;;selectsimilar;l;;_m;0,0;0,0;_pe;l;j;p;;;_pl; \;_pe;l;w;25;;selectsimilar;l;;_m;0,0;0,0;_pe;l;j;p;;;_pl; \;_pe;l;w;25;;selectsimilar;l;;_m;0,0;0,0;_pe;l;j;p;;;_pl; \;_pe;l;w;25;;selectsimilar;l;;_m;0,0;0,0;_pe;l;j;p;;;_pl; \;_pe;l;w;25;;selectsimilar;l;;_m;0,0;0,0;_pe;l;j;p;;;

Thanks anyway mate. You're still at 499:1 on the could help me:couldn't help me score sheet!

Thank you Steven that one works perfectly. It looks simple now you have done it. I could never work out what the last command was really for, I always used previous and though last to be a bit limited. Are there any online resources you can recommend to learn diesel?

Saved by steven. Yeah! Now I can climb back into my hidey hole.

ReMark don't even think of hiding we'd all be lost without you,

Glen I'll try and dig out a list of some of the sites I regularly find myself looking at, just give me a couple of hours.

No rush Steven, it's 5-to-going home time!

Yeah it was 5 past feeding time here, these are a few good resources that I regularly look at plus the Autocad help files

http://www.fourmilab.ch/diesel/

http://www.upfrontezine.com/tailor/tailor17.htm

http://www.crlf.de/Dokumente/Diesel/Diesel.html

http://cadingandcoding.blogspot.be/search/label/DIESEL

Thanks Steven.

You're welcome, I was pretty sure you asked another question yesterday, but I can't find it anymore, the answer is yes it can be done (or maybe it wasn't you!)