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Have you ever started working on a DWG file and discovered at some point that it was created using incorrect units? You can easily verify them with UNITS and see the DWG's insertion scale and other units-related settings before you begin making any changes. When working with someone else's DWG or from another company, I always like to check the units first, rather than just trusting that it's set up properly. It can save you headaches down the road when dealing with insertion scales of blocks, inserting or attaching references, etc. Do you check UNITS as part of your standard procedure when you receive an unfamiliar DWG?

Why would I contact them? They have a website are usually on at a few AutoCAD fora. @XDCAD_net and @XDSoft should be the originators of that program. In looking at your first post, I would believe a newer program to be in C:\Program Files\, not in C:\ Program Files(x86)\. Here are installation instruction from the GitHub... xdcad · GitHub

Did you try contacting XDSOFT? HOW? I LOAD "XDRx.x64.25.arx" AND i get this error

@BIGAL, they are using Text, not MText, which could be part of the problem, from what I've seen on Autodesk site, Text doesn't lend itself to multiple languages.

Did you try contacting XDSOFT? Maybe provide more information. What are you attempting to do that gives the error?

Professionally all updates are via email. Recorded in the company systems and auditable.

@Paul Li it may not be the answer but what I have done in the past is to quickly get the strlen of say file name, Then get the maximum value of all the file names and add say 2, that becomes your new width for the dcl.

3) Regarding Horizontal Slide Bar (or better term may be Scroll bar)

"3) Horizontal slide bar to list box" not sure if you mean like this a horizontal slider. as you move it the item in in the list box is selected. A slider uses a min max number and step size. So could do "1 to length of list", step of 1. This has 3 sliders and updates total. Sliders arrows are not clear in image. "6) A select file dialog box " thumbnails choice. Your "pl_getfiledps.lsp" when the explorer is opened click on the "More" option and can see icons etc.

Works great often do old fashioned DOS to get file names list or use the VL files functions. A suggestion remove "result" from the local variables list. As the answer disappears. Or ; Example: ; (setq files (pl:getfiledps "Select Files" (getvar"dwgprefix") "dwg" 1)) A side comment I have used Powershell with Bricscad and sometimes does not work. Your code may help as you do a deeper dive into running Powershell. I generally only do a "Power shell and script" I have used it to change programs, I jump to Excel from CAD.

One observation: in older versions of AutoCAD (2000 and 2002, at least), 'vla-get-HWND' applies to the Document object rather than the Acad object.

Still for me your just replacing the inbuilt mtext ability. The Mtext should support Chinese characters. 1 Select mtext, using dbl click 2 Highlite characters 3 Edit characters 4 Press OK

Thanks for troubleshooting. That could definitely be caused by having a write-line statement that's way too long. I've made the changes to reduce the write-line on the dcl. Kindly troubleshoot some more for offices that do allow for running powershell with the attached revised version...thanks in advance. pl_getfiledps.lsp

then xdrx.x64.25.arx seems correct, it should match (substr (getvar "ACADVER") 1 2)

I'm not going to troubleshoot it since Powershell is blocked at work, but if the load has that error, then it's something in the Code, probable in the DCL write-line part.

Thank you for the reminder, this is long-term content for search engines. At least I know there are several WhatsApp groups in the AEC field, and I guess there should still be some users. What methods do you mainly use?

Not so sure on that one, CAD engineers don't get work phones so often, so whatsapp not so useful to keep up to date with a file repository.

String too long - just a guess, file path and file name string length? - going back old school when we had 256? characters for it all - but just a guess

This thread was started 5 months ago and there was never a response to original questions. My WAG is @BIGAL's suggestion of RECOVER did the trick.

Good catch!

Many work computers are likely limited for using Powershell. Unrelated to Powershell being blocked, I get an error loading. error: string too long on input

I was just suggesting a rewrite, though I think maybe it is just a Unicode issue so it might be altered. That's what I came back with on an internet search for change AutoCAD LISP from English input to Chinese and the articles I read stated Chinese has double-byte Unicode, the GRREAD may also be an issue. LISPSYS=2 is necessary. Is this on a Chinese Simplified version of AutoCAD, Windows , etc.? Give some more detailed information on the setups this will be used. I just started studying Chinese a few weeks ago, so I want be a ton of help on that end and haven't got into the characters yet.

Just a quick update on this experiment: An AEC startup working on automated 2D quantity takeoff reached out to me today. They’ve been using AI to extract drawing data, but have been hitting a wall with geometric precision, and wanted to see if the v-code RPN approach could work for their 2D pipeline. When I started experimenting with v-code, the whole point was to slash token bloat and eliminate coordinate hallucinations through a deterministic stack machine (the 3D CSG solid in the sandbox was just a visual way to demonstrate the stack collapsing into geometry). Seeing a team take that core concept and explore applying it to real-world 2D data extraction has been an unexpected and very encouraging surprise.

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