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We have a number of Different door widths in regards to egress and I have a typical egress tag that

Gives the door width and the occupancy number. My question is can you add a formula to a block att. That I can key in the door width and have the occ load number input Automaticlly.???

Have you thought of using a dynamic block with visibility states for each door size? or....

If you use a lisp routine to insert the block, you could prompt for the door width (attribute 1), and use a formula to determine the occupancy number and use that as the value for the 2nd attribute.

A lisp routine would be nice. I do not have one that inserts a block.

Do you know where i could find a lisp routine that would do that.???

Post your block and I'll see what I can do.

Is this block inserted at a constant scale, or at the dimscale?

Blocks are inserted at the Dim Scale.

Thanks...

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Ok, I notice from your blocks there are 3 attributes each

1. stair block- do you want 2 prompts, ST-X and width?

is the occupancy always the width / .2?

do you need "width/.2" displayed or just the width?

do you need "OCC" tagged on at the end in the third attribute?

2. door block - same questions

is the occupancy always the width / .15?

Ok, I notice from your blocks there are 3 attributes each

1. stair block- do you want 2 prompts, ST-X and width? -YES

is the occupancy always the width / .2? - YES

do you need "width/.2" displayed or just the width? "Width/.2

do you need "OCC" tagged on at the end in the third attribute? Yes

2. door block - same questions

is the occupancy always the width / .15? YesToday 03:23 pm

They seem to work in the drawing you provided with the blocks you provided.

Door.LSP

Stair.lsp

Thanks lpseifert, that was Awesome.

they work great.

I have a question.? If I want to change the top line of the

block to Read "4 Doors @ 33" Then the second line would be

(4x33) and read "132" /.15" and then the bottom would remain

the same as 880 OCC.

Can I add a line in the lisp that would take the Number of doors

x the actual width and then take that number and / by .15 for

the total Occupancy load.???

You'd need to create a prompt for # doors

use strcat to create variable for attribute #1

edit variable for attribute #2

no time now maybe later, if you'd like.

BTW, what do you mean by 'that was assume'?

Sorry I have another Dumb Question.?

If the block does not reside in the drawing the lisp does not work.

Is there a way to insert the block if it is not in the drawing.???

Am I getting way to complacated.???

here's one way

(if
   (not
     (tblsearch "block" "BLOCKNAME"))
   (command "-insert" "BLOCKNAME" (command))
   )

the path of the block will need to be hard coded if it isn't in acad's search path.