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if Nothing else it would show up in peoples searches. I often times go back and looks for things when someone posts 6 months to a year from now asking for what this lisp is designed to do but then won't be able to find it.

@darshjalal Thanks for your program contribution. I don't want to take away for your obvious hard work, but I somewhat agree with @BIGAL. I have read the extensive comments that are very detailed and technical, but there is no summary of what it is used for, or how it is useful. For the casual LISP user, they would not understand the value in such a program. I think a simple paragraph would be help instead of blindly evaluating it. Your title does explain the purpose of the program, but it's too vague and some plain language on how the features are helpful would be nice - just a friendly critique

@Danielm103 Why Properties palette doesn't show how many vertices does closed polyline have? That was always included AFAIK if I can recall correctly...

creates a closed polyline in Autocad 2027

Does it create a closed poly? or is it open where the two lines don't meet.

Why the error occurs The PAUSE limitation: In AutoLISP, pause only stops the command to let the user interact (e.g., click a point). It does not return the string value to the command sequence. When you reach the attribute part, AutoCAD expects a string, but since pause doesn't provide one, the sequence breaks.Multiline Attribute Format: Multiline attributes in a command-line sequence require specific formatting. If there are line breaks, they must be represented by \P. In Lisp, you must escape the backslash: \\P .Command vs -Command: When using Lisp, it is safer to use the hyphenated version (e.g., -INSERT ) to force the command-line interface and bypass dialog boxes entirely. The Corrected Lisp Routine This routine replaces your DIESEL script. It captures the date automatically (matching your DIESEL format) and prompts for the initials and notes. (defun c:REVNOTE (/ insPt dateStr userInitials revNote) ;; Save current ATTDIA and turn it off (setq oldAttdia (getvar "ATTDIA")) (setvar "ATTDIA" 0) ;; 1. Get Insertion Point (setq insPt (getpoint "\nSpecify insertion point: ")) ;; 2. Get Date (Mimicking your Diesel formatting) ;; This uses a Lisp trick to call the Diesel 'edtime' function directly (setq dateStr (menucmd "M=(edtime,$(getvar,date),DD.MO.YYYY)")) ;; 3. Get User Initials (getstring T allows spaces) (setq userInitials (getstring T "\nEnter Initials: ")) ;; 4. Get Revision Note (for the multiline attribute) (setq revNote (getstring T "\nEnter Revision Note: ")) ;; 5. Execute the Insert command ;; Sequence: BlockName, Point, ScaleX, ScaleY, Rotation, Attr1, Attr2, Attr3, Attr4 (command "-INSERT" "REVNOTE" ; Block name insPt ; User picked point "1" "1" "0" ; Scale and Rotation "P01" ; Attribute 1: Rev Index dateStr ; Attribute 2: Date userInitials ; Attribute 3: Initials revNote ; Attribute 4: Multiline Note ) ;; Restore ATTDIA and Regen (setvar "ATTDIA" oldAttdia) (command "REGEN") (princ "\nRevision inserted successfully.") (princ) ) Key Differences & Improvements: menucmd: This is the best way to get the exact edtime format you used in DIESEL without writing a complex date-parsing routine in Lisp. getstring T: The T flag allows the user to enter spaces (e.g., if the user wants to type "First issue - revised"). Without it, pressing the Spacebar would finish the command. -INSERT: Using the hyphen ensures that AutoCAD doesn't try to pop up a browser window for the block file.Multiline Support: If your revNote contains multiple lines, make sure to type \P where you want the line break, or modify the code to join multiple strings with \\P.

It seems @Jesper Hedlund hasn't returned. If I am understanding correctly, the issue is with the program used to plot the layouts, it plots Model instead of the actual layouts CTAB value.

Worked fine on my home computer with AutoCAD 2000i, but I get the same as @PGia and @ronjonp on AutoCAD 2026 at work.

Inside the code there is explanation of the code function. The code does many functions that image can't explain. Kindly check the code and read the description inside. Regards.

If your offering something a good idea is to provide images or a movie about what the program does, else the "Why bother" will occur. Just attaching a lisp is not really describing why you should download the program. Think of it as if I was selling the program how would I get people interested.

DIVCURVES-INSERTING POINTS AS SPECIFIC DISTANCE.LSP

LT slow, have you looked at doing saves say every 15 minutes as a test, your undo may be coming an excessive size. What is your auto save set to ? We had like 15 minutes as the default. Another where is your "Temp directory" pointing to I have a SSD and normal drive and the ssd is so much faster when saving.

AutoCAD 2027 still has the bug:

I am a ROOKIE. So please take it easy on me. I've been searching and tried to replicate what others have said works for them with no luck. I'm trying to have 1 "MAIN" attribute that I am prompted to change the value when inserting the block. The other attributes "SUB1" and "SUB2" would update to match the value of the master. I have tried creating these attributes with the ATTDEF. I made the MAIN I then made the SUB1 with the Default a Field category OBJECT Field names Object Object type Attribute Definition ( which is where I can select the MAIN attribute) Property Value. I get the ---- in a Grey block I then select all 3 attributes and create a block with them. When I insert the block I get the prompt to change the value of MAIN and SUB1 & SUB2 have the ---- inside the grey boxes. The value of MAIN is updated but SUB1 and SUB2 still show the ---- Grey boxes. REGENALL amide no difference. I tried doing the same thing in the block editor and got the same results. I "ASSuME" it is just something easy that I am missing. If you can help that would be great. I have about 40 Attributes in 1 block that need to be updated with the value of the MAIN.

Ouch. See what it does if you hit esc. or hitting the X instead of cancel.

I'm writing a lisp routine to automation drawing revision in lisp. to replace a diesel version. I have come across a problem when inserting the block using lisp, in diesel it works perfectly. The block has four attributes, with the last being a multiline attribute. The routine stumbles at this point and misinterprets the pause for user input as \ and returns the error 'unknown command'. The diesel code that works is below. attdia;0;-I;REVNOTE;\;1;;P01;""$m=$(edtime,$(getvar,date),DD.MO.YYYY)"";SMS;First issue;;attdia;1;rea; The same in lisp below (command "attdia" "0") (command "_Insert" "REVNOTE" pause 1 1 0 "P01" Date Initials pause) (command "attdia" "1") (command "REA") Any ideas on why this is happening as i'm stumped, unless its a bug in AutoCAD. many thanks REVNOTE.dwg

@rlx Your Kung-Fu is Strong! Nice work!

Updated first post , added a few new options and killed a little bug in the get-subfolders routine.

I’m using AutoCAD 2015. "boundary" is supposed to return a perimeter exactly matching the geometry surrounding the point specified to the command. I run the command using the option to identify boundaries by 'pick' on screen. I haven’t tried exploding the polylines into lines yet. I’ll give it a try, but I suspect the result will be the same.

Must be an AutoCAD thing works in BricsCAD. you could just join the other 3 polys and get the same effect.

So the problem is that the darker lines should intersect in the top square glyph instead of the next to the top square glyph? Which CAD are you using? When I run BOUNDARY or HATCH here in Bricscad V26 the boundary is always to the upper square glyph, not to the next to the top square glyph as shown in your drawing. What are the parameters you are using for the BOUNDARY command? Do you get the same error if you explode the plines before you run BOUNDARY?

I think I didn’t explain myself properly. The idea is to run "boundary" and click inside the largest closed area shown in the image. After checking the result — by zooming into the area indicated by the arrow — you’ll understand what the image in my previous message is referring to. I’ll attach a drawing. Boundary.dwg

Thanks Danielm103 if using mtext field, I am sure have seen get total count. I think count was in this Lee-mac program for layout number and count. https://www.lee-mac.com/layoutfield.html

https://lee-mac.com/polyoutline.html or https://lee-mac.com/advpolyoutline.html will outline a pline. https://jtbworld.com/autocad-hatchb-lsp willoutline a hatch. I can't tell what might be required to automate the process without a DWG of a full pline set or hatch set example.

sure it is, try $(getvar,"ctab") full field is %<\AcDiesel $(getvar,"ctab")>%