Project Management inside AutoCAD

FWIW

 

 

I sometimes use this old routine to make sort of sticky notes inside DWG format.

Its nice that if you save a note it will be prompted once you open the DWG,

Logical, it only works if you start up with lsp

 

 

 

 

;Tip1756a: MESSAGE.LSP Message Service ©2001, John R. Fair III; $50 Bonus Winner

;;; ----------------------------------------------------------

;;; Message.lsp is a program to store and retrieve ;

;;; information about a drawing. Use it to save notes to ;

;;; yourself or others, information about "odd" non-standard ;

;;; things you were asked to do to a drawing. Saves right in;

;;; the drawing, retrieve the message the next day, next week;

;;; or next year.

;;; ----------------------------------------------------------

Can you share this LISP with us?

Im interested!

Message.lsp and Message.dcl that goes with it can be found here...

http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/visual-lisp-autolisp-and-general/message-lsp/td-p/1743119

Now that I'm thinking about it, could it have been by chance Patrick Hughes' program titled "CadTempo", which is a time analytics software for AutoCAD? See here:

 

http://www.cadtempo.com/

Not something CadTempo does...yet.

I allways thought this one does some tricks with sysvar 'edtime'. Maybe its not..

Keeping track on hours spend on dwg doesn't say jacksht imo. HOwever, it would be nice to see a app 'BIMtempo' to monitor some desired speeds on ifc, rvt, or whatever your flavor is..

http://docs.autodesk.com/ACD/2010/ENU/AutoCAD%202010%20User%20Documentation/index.html?url=WS73099cc142f4875513fb5cd10c4aa30d6b-7afe.htm,topicNumber=d0e394867

halam "Productivity_tool_analysis.lsp" does some nice stuff about what you are doing in a dwg I have cut it down to just start and end reports for time, interesting though ran it over numerous staff and the command counts etc see lsp was very interesting.

CadTempo seems like a fine module but it was not it. After seeing some navisworks tutorial i am now almost certain this might have been the one.

I havent worked with it personally, it was just a period where i was searching immensely the web for Autocad addons and it had caught my eye, like 8 years ago.

But as noted it is its own program, it does not embed inside AutoCAD so even if this is it i can not make use of it.

Either something like this exists in AutoCAD, or id just have to work with an additional program outside which is not as dsirbale but now feels like my only option. There is Microsoft Project and the free GanntProject which i am now experimenting with.

To be clear, nothing like what you have described was ever a natural part of AutoCAD. Not now nor eight years ago.

CadTempo seems like a fine module but it was not it. After seeing some navisworks tutorial i am now almost certain this might have been the one.

 

I havent worked with it personally, it was just a period where i was searching immensely the web for Autocad addons and it had caught my eye, like 8 years ago.

 

But as noted it is its own program, it does not embed inside AutoCAD so even if this is it i can not make use of it.

 

Either something like this exists in AutoCAD, or id just have to work with an additional program outside which is not as dsirbale but now feels like my only option. There is Microsoft Project and the free GanntProject which i am now experimenting with.

-TZ

Navisworks can wok with AutoCAD just as with other CAD software, and its not 'integrated' into any CAD program as far as I knwo It can link cad data to e.g planning. Look at the site of http://www.ssi-corporate.com/ how they use it in combination with AutoCAD..