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What version of AutoCAD Electrical? Unless it's changed, you go to Drawing Properties under the Drawing Format tab and select "Vertical" under Ladder Defaults. Maybe this will help... AutoCAD Electrical 2025 Help | To Work With Ladders | Autodesk

Sorry BigAl, I was forgetting BricsCAD - I've never used it so no sure what it has and doesn't

Thanks, that works better

I spoke too fast

I agree with you but what if there are a lot of polylines and lines?

check your 'projmode if 'extend too' entity is on a different 'Z' I like [2]

You don't need a lisp for that. just the extend command.

Oh, explode will create polylines and faces

There’s a sample point drawing on github TIN, Major and Minor and have transparency, but they are currently hard coded to TIN 50%, Minor 50%, Major %100

Just having some fun… A custom object that does triangulation and contours. Its very fast (I think) I’ve only tested on one drawing; Binaries are in the release folder here (AutoCAD 2025-2026, ZwCAD 2025-2026, GstarCAD 2026) https://github.com/CEXT-Dan/ArxTin Command: TINNER Select objects: Specify opposite corner: 41769 found Select objects: Enter a major contour interval: 100 Enter a minor contour interval: 10 CArxTinUIApp::CArxTinUIApp_tinner Done , 0.000235 seconds Command: LIST Select objects: CEXTDBTIN Layer: "tin" Space: Model space Color: BYLAYER Linetype: "Continuous" Handle = cb4cf Number of points: 41769 Number of triangles: 82720 Minimum elevation: 5503.992569 Maximum elevation: 7060.996567 2D area: 37224000.000000 3D area: 47335595.172935

Please help me Extend Lines to Polyline. Thanks so much ! Extend Lines to Polyline.dwg

@Steven P did trusted paths above including check if running Bricscad which does not have trusted paths. Another way to push lisps to a pc is you can via lisp unzip a ZIP file to a location, advantage is only one file rather than copying a whole directory. I use this as part of install lisps. Its super fast. Just need a "Filename" (startapp (strcat "powershell -command Expand-Archive -Path '" filename "' -DestinationPath 'C:/xxx-CAD-TOOLS' -FORCE")) (alert "programs unzipped to C:/xxx-CAD-TOOLS")

@GLAVCVS & @leonucadomi have a look at this it,s not code solution but rather a number of defuns to talk to Excel, read and write plus more. I keep adding functions. Alan Excel library.lsp

It can also be a csv file Here I have an example code that, while calculating, generates a file like the one I told you about. (setq fn (getfiled "Fichero de punto a exportar" "" "csv" 1)) (setq Archivo (open fn "w")) (setq var0 "Puntos") (setq var1 "Angulos") (setq var2 "Distancias") (princ (strcat var0 "," var1 "," var2) Archivo) (princ "\n" Archivo) (setq n 0)

thank you master

Excel and I barely know each other. I don't feel as prepared as some to talk about him

;BACALADODEBILBADOO.noes (defun nqf (tuSS / i lista tipObj cad) (princ "\nNumero que falta") (terpri) (setq cant (sslength tuSS)) (princ "\nCantidad de textos seleccionados = ") (princ cant) (princ "\nLista de numeros faltantes") ;Pasar del SS a una lista de valores (setq i 0) (repeat (sslength tuSS) (setq tipObj (cdr (assoc 0 (setq le (entget (ssname tuSS i))))) num (atoi (cdr (assoc (if (= tipObj "TEXT") 1 2) le))) i (1+ i) lista (if (setq l (assoc num lista)) (subst (list num (1+ (cadr l))) l lista) (append lista (list (list num 1))) ) ) ) ;Imprimir los valores que no aparezcan (terpri) (setq i 1) (princ (strcat "\nLista de numeros existentes\n" (while lista (if (setq v (assoc i lista)) (setq cad (if (= (cadr v) 1) (if cad (strcat cad ", " (itoa (car v))) (itoa (car v)) ) (if cad (strcat cad ", " (itoa (car v)) "(" (itoa (cadr v)) ")") (strcat (itoa (car v)) "(" (itoa (cadr v)) ")") ) ) lista (vl-remove v lista) ) (princ (strcat "\nFalta el # " (itoa i))) ) (setq i (1+ i)) cad ) ) ) (princ) ) (defun c:nqf nil (nqf (ssget '((0 . "TEXT,ATTDEF")))))

It's excellent, thank you I just think there is a mistake When the first number has more than one repetition, it is not counted. Could it be possible to export a file xls with two columns of values, its tag and its quantity?

Since you're not using the return for vl-directory-files (just checking if it exists), findfile will be much faster: (defun _vl-directory-files (path /) (vl-directory-files path "*.*") ) (defun _findfile (path /) (findfile path) ) Quick benchmark: _VL-DIRECTORY-FILES Elapsed: 1391 Average: 0.1391 _FINDFILE Elapsed: 484 Average: 0.0484 In any event, here's a slightly simplified mod: (defun c:SetTrustedPaths (/ ) (foreach path (list "C:\\Users\\A Folder\\LISPs\\..." ) (_SetTrustedPaths path) ) (princ) ) (defun _SetTrustedPaths (path / trustedpaths) ;; folder check (if (not (findfile path)) (vl-mkdir path)) ;; trusted path check (if (vl-string-search (strcase path) (strcase (setq trustedpaths (getvar 'trustedpaths))) ) trustedpaths (setvar 'trustedpaths (strcat (if (= 59 (last (vl-string->list trustedpaths))) trustedpaths (strcat trustedpaths ";") ) path ) ) ) ) Cheers

My mind was working on this last night... This should add a folder location to the users trusted locations - a few little checks along the way - then LISPs should just run (defun c:trustedpaths ( / MyDir) (setq MyDir "C:\\Users\\A Folder\\LISPs") ;; path to add ;; Can do MyDir as a list and a foreach to call (trustedpaths) (trustedpaths MyDir) ) (defun trustedpaths (MyDir / MyTrustedPaths) (setq MyTrustedPaths (getvar 'trustedpaths)) ;;get current trusted paths (if (vl-directory-files MyDir "*.*") ;;Does MyDir location exist. If not create it (princ (strcat MyDir " Folder exists.\n")) ;;Yes (progn (princ (vl-mkdir MyDir)) ;;No: Create folder (princ " Folder created.\n") ) ) (if (vl-string-search (strcase MyDir) (strcase MyTrustedPaths)) ;;Is MyDir in TrustedPaths (progn (princ (strcat MyDir " is a trusted Path.\n")) ;;Yes ) (progn ;; No: add to trusted paths (if (equal (substr MyTrustedPaths (- (strlen MyTrustedPaths) 0) ) ";") ;; Edit for trailing ; (setq MyTrustedPaths (strcat MyTrustedPaths " " MyDir)) (setq MyTrustedPaths (strcat MyTrustedPaths "; " MyDir)) ;; include ; ) (setvar 'trustedpaths MyTrustedPaths) ;; update trustedpaths system variable ) ) (princ (strcat "Trusted paths: " (getvar 'trustedpaths))) (princ) )

Try ;BACALADODEBILBADO.noes (defun nqf (tuSS / i lista tipObj cad) (princ "\nNumero que falta") (terpri) (setq cant (sslength tuSS)) (princ "\nCantidad de textos seleccionados = ") (princ cant) (princ "\nLista de numeros faltantes") ;Pasar del SS a una lista de valores (setq i 0) (repeat (sslength tuSS) (setq tipObj (cdr (assoc 0 (setq le (entget (ssname tuSS i))))) num (atoi (cdr (assoc (if (= tipObj "TEXT") 1 2) le))) i (1+ i) lista (if (setq l (assoc num lista)) (subst (list num (1+ (cadr l))) l lista) (append lista (list (list num 1))) ) ) ) ;Imprimir los valores que no aparezcan (terpri) (setq i 1) (princ (strcat "\nLista de numeros existentes\n" (while lista (if (setq v (assoc i lista)) (setq cad (if (= (cadr v) 1) (if cad (strcat cad ", " (itoa (car v))) (itoa (car v)) ) (if cad (strcat cad ", " (itoa (car v)) "(" (itoa (cadr v)) ")") (itoa (car v)) ) ) lista (vl-remove v lista) ) (princ (strcat "\nFalta el # " (itoa i))) ) (setq i (1+ i)) cad ) ) ) (princ) ) (defun c:nqf nil (nqf (ssget '((0 . "TEXT,ATTDEF")))))

Autodesk seems to go out of their way to match the difficulty of intools, lotus notes and IFP-PRO. Can anyone tell me why my ladder is horizontal (There was no option in the dialog box for orientation.), why it has more rungs than specified, why there are no busses and why there is an "X" at the end. Autodesk's forums are useless so I don't expect to get an answer from them.

thanks for the contribution master There is a routine that I use for texts and it helps me know what number is missing in a series of numbers. A similar one would help me a lot but for "ATTDEF" because I receive drawings in which other people number pieces, sometimes with texts and sometimes with "ATTDEF" So I need to do an audit to know the amount of "ATTDEF", which number is missing and how many times each tag is repeated. here code master... (defun nqf (tuSS / i lista) (princ "\nNumero que falta") (terpri) (setq cant (sslength tuSS)) (princ "\nCantidad de textos seleccionados = ") (princ cant) (princ "\nLista de numeros faltantes") ;Pasar del SS a una lista de valores (setq i 0) (repeat (sslength tuSS) (setq lista (cons (atoi (cdr (assoc 1 (entget (ssname tuSS i))))) lista) i (1+ i)) ) ;Imprimir los valores que no aparezcan (setq lista (vl-sort lista '< ) i 1 ) (repeat (last lista) (if (null (member i lista))(princ (strcat "\nFalta el # " (itoa i)))) (setq i (1+ i)) ) (princ "\nLista de numeros existentes") (terpri) (princ lista) (terpri) (textscr) ) (defun c:nqf nil (nqf (ssget '((0 . "TEXT"))))) thanks

Like SLW, I have my preferred settings in a LISP - runs at startup - but if I am playing about with things I can reset then to what I like.

I use the acaddoc.lsp to set my Sysvars. ;(SETVAR "" n) (SETVAR "FILEDIA" 1) (SETVAR "FILLMODE" 1) (SETVAR "FRAME" 2) System variables are not saved in AutoCAD I just went through the SYSVDLG, then made the settings as I had them. Not sure how up to date this list is... List of System Variables - AutoCAD Tutorial and Videos