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I have done something like this a couple of years ago :

with mtext, you have to use a fixed width font import traceback from pyrx import Ap, Db, Ed import art @Ap.Command() def doit(): try: db = Db.curDb() mt = Db.MText() mt.setDatabaseDefaults() val = art.text2art("Sup Dude!", font="big", sep ="\\P") mt.setContents("{\\Fmonotxt8|c0;" + val + "}") db.addToModelspace(mt) except Exception as err: traceback.print_exception(err)

I have to agree with Bigal about to (new)bee or not to (new)bee but to give you an idea ; (setq val (getentitytransparency (car (entsel)))) (defun getentitytransparency ( ent ) (cond ((= 'vla-object (type ent))(vla-get-entitytransparency ent)) ((= 'ename (type ent))(getentitytransparency (vlax-ename->vla-object ent))))) ; (< lower-limit test-number upper-limit) ; (putentitytransparency (car (entsel)) "ByBlock") (putentitytransparency (car (entsel)) 100) (defun putentitytransparency (e v / i o) (cond ((null v)(setq v "ByLayer"))((and (numberp v)(< 0 v 90))(setq v (itoa (fix v)))) ((and (= (type v) 'STR) (distof v) (>= 0 (setq i (fix (distof v))) 90))(setq v (itoa i))) ((and (= (type v) 'STR) (member (strcase v t)'("bylayer" "byblock"))) v)(t (setq v "0"))) (if (setq o (e->o e))(vla-put-entitytransparency o v)))

@Danielm103 ""with mtext, you have to use a fixed width font" I agree, Monotxt.sHx I think was what I used. monotxt_.ttf EXTRA FONTS A-Z.txt Banner heading3.lsp

here's your big text import traceback from pyrx import Ap, Db, Ed ascii = {'A': ['▄████▄ ', '██ ██ ', '██████ ', '██ ██ ', '██ ██ '], 'B': ['█████ ', '██ ██ ', '█████ ', '██ ██ ', '█████ '], 'C': ['▄█████ ', '██ ', '██ ', '██ ', '▀█████ '], 'D': ['█████ ', '██ ██ ', '██ ██ ', '██ ██ ', '█████ '], 'E': ['▄█████ ', '██ ', '█████ ', '██ ', '▀█████ '], 'F': ['██████ ', '██ ', '████ ', '██ ', '██ '], 'G': ['▄█████ ', '██ ', '██ ███ ', '██ ██ ', '▀████▀ '], 'H': ['██ ██ ', '██ ██ ', '██████ ', '██ ██ ', '██ ██ '], 'I': ['██ ', '██ ', '██ ', '██ ', '██ '], 'J': [' ██ ', ' ██ ', ' ██ ', '██ ██ ', '██████ '], 'K': ['██ ██ ', '██ ██ ', '█████ ', '██ ██ ', '██ ██ '], 'L': ['██ ', '██ ', '██ ', '██ ', '█████ '], 'M': ['▄██████▄ ', '██ ██ ██ ', '██ ██ ██ ', '██ ██ ', '██ ██ '], 'N': ['██ ██ ', '███ ██ ', '██████ ', '██ ███ ', '██ ██ '], 'O': ['▄████▄ ', '██ ██ ', '██ ██ ', '██ ██ ', '▀████▀ '], 'P': ['█████ ', '██ ██ ', '█████ ', '██ ', '██ '], 'Q': [' ████ ', '██ ██ ', '██▀▄██ ', '██ ██ ', ' ███ █ '], 'R': ['█████ ', '██ ██ ', '█████ ', '██ ██ ', '██ ██ '], 'S': ['▄████ ', '██ ', '▀███▄ ', ' ██ ', '████▀ '], 'T': ['██████ ', ' ██ ', ' ██ ', ' ██ ', ' ██ '], 'U': ['██ ██ ', '██ ██ ', '██ ██ ', '██ ██ ', ' ████ '], 'V': ['██ ██ ', '██ ██ ', '██ ██ ', ' ██ ██ ', ' ███ '], 'W': ['██ █ ██ ', '██ █ ██ ', '██ █ ██ ', '▀█████▀ ', ' █ █ '], 'X': ['██ ██ ', '██ ██ ', ' ██ ', '██ ██ ', '██ ██ '], 'Y': ['██ ██ ', '██ ██ ', ' ████ ', ' ██ ', ' ██ '], 'Z': ['██████ ', ' ██ ', ' ██ ', '██ ', '██████ '], '0': [' ████ ', '██ ██ ', '██▀▄██ ', '██ ██ ', ' ████ '], '1': [' ██ ', '▄███ ', ' ██ ', ' ██ ', ' ██ '], '2': [' ████ ', '█ ██ ', ' ██ ', '██ ', '██████ '], '3': ['█████ ', ' ██ ', '█████ ', ' ██ ', '█████ '], '4': ['██ ██ ', '██ ██ ', '██████ ', ' ██ ', ' ██ '], '5': ['█████ ', '██ ', '████ ', ' ██ ', '████ '], '6': [' █████ ', '██ ', '█████ ', '██ ██ ', ' ████ '], '7': ['██████ ', ' ██ ', ' ██ ', ' ██ ', '██ '], '8': [' ████ ', '██ ██ ', ' ████ ', '██ ██ ', ' ████ '], '9': [' ████ ', '██ ██ ', ' █████ ', ' ██ ', ' ███ '], ':': [' ', '██ ', ' ', '██ ', ' '], '&': [' ███ ', '██ ██ ', ' █████ ██ ', '██ ███ ', ' █████ ██ '], ' ': [' ',' ',' ',' ',' '] } def _Big_text(text: str): lines = [""] * 5 text = text.upper() for char in text: pattern = ascii.get(char, [" ??? " ] * 5) for i in range(5): lines[i] += pattern[i] for line in lines: print(line) @Ap.Command() def doit1(): try: _Big_text("Sup coders") except Exception as err: traceback.print_exception(err)

There's also art https://pypi.org/project/art/ might take some work to get it in am mtext import traceback from pyrx import Ap, Db, Ed import art @Ap.Command() def doit1(): try: art.tprint("Sup coders") except Exception as err: traceback.print_exception(err)

Made a custom interface for logging measurements of parts so no cad. need to output errors or other prompts to the screen that can be seen from about 5 feet. wouldn't mind taking a look at the lisp also guessing its mtext?

@mhupp do you want a lisp version of that ? It works same way uses "*". I think it was 1990.s used it as header in lisp programs.

@Danielm103 I have Gotten into Python haven't used it for CAD yet. This will output to the terminal when you really need to see something. ascii = {'A': ['▄████▄ ', '██ ██ ', '██████ ', '██ ██ ', '██ ██ '], 'B': ['█████ ', '██ ██ ', '█████ ', '██ ██ ', '█████ '], 'C': ['▄█████ ', '██ ', '██ ', '██ ', '▀█████ '], 'D': ['█████ ', '██ ██ ', '██ ██ ', '██ ██ ', '█████ '], 'E': ['▄█████ ', '██ ', '█████ ', '██ ', '▀█████ '], 'F': ['██████ ', '██ ', '████ ', '██ ', '██ '], 'G': ['▄█████ ', '██ ', '██ ███ ', '██ ██ ', '▀████▀ '], 'H': ['██ ██ ', '██ ██ ', '██████ ', '██ ██ ', '██ ██ '], 'I': ['██ ', '██ ', '██ ', '██ ', '██ '], 'J': [' ██ ', ' ██ ', ' ██ ', '██ ██ ', '██████ '], 'K': ['██ ██ ', '██ ██ ', '█████ ', '██ ██ ', '██ ██ '], 'L': ['██ ', '██ ', '██ ', '██ ', '█████ '], 'M': ['▄██████▄ ', '██ ██ ██ ', '██ ██ ██ ', '██ ██ ', '██ ██ '], 'N': ['██ ██ ', '███ ██ ', '██████ ', '██ ███ ', '██ ██ '], 'O': ['▄████▄ ', '██ ██ ', '██ ██ ', '██ ██ ', '▀████▀ '], 'P': ['█████ ', '██ ██ ', '█████ ', '██ ', '██ '], 'Q': [' ████ ', '██ ██ ', '██▀▄██ ', '██ ██ ', ' ███ █ '], 'R': ['█████ ', '██ ██ ', '█████ ', '██ ██ ', '██ ██ '], 'S': ['▄████ ', '██ ', '▀███▄ ', ' ██ ', '████▀ '], 'T': ['██████ ', ' ██ ', ' ██ ', ' ██ ', ' ██ '], 'U': ['██ ██ ', '██ ██ ', '██ ██ ', '██ ██ ', ' ████ '], 'V': ['██ ██ ', '██ ██ ', '██ ██ ', ' ██ ██ ', ' ███ '], 'W': ['██ █ ██ ', '██ █ ██ ', '██ █ ██ ', '▀█████▀ ', ' █ █ '], 'X': ['██ ██ ', '██ ██ ', ' ██ ', '██ ██ ', '██ ██ '], 'Y': ['██ ██ ', '██ ██ ', ' ████ ', ' ██ ', ' ██ '], 'Z': ['██████ ', ' ██ ', ' ██ ', '██ ', '██████ '], '0': [' ████ ', '██ ██ ', '██▀▄██ ', '██ ██ ', ' ████ '], '1': [' ██ ', '▄███ ', ' ██ ', ' ██ ', ' ██ '], '2': [' ████ ', '█ ██ ', ' ██ ', '██ ', '██████ '], '3': ['█████ ', ' ██ ', '█████ ', ' ██ ', '█████ '], '4': ['██ ██ ', '██ ██ ', '██████ ', ' ██ ', ' ██ '], '5': ['█████ ', '██ ', '████ ', ' ██ ', '████ '], '6': [' █████ ', '██ ', '█████ ', '██ ██ ', ' ████ '], '7': ['██████ ', ' ██ ', ' ██ ', ' ██ ', '██ '], '8': [' ████ ', '██ ██ ', ' ████ ', '██ ██ ', ' ████ '], '9': [' ████ ', '██ ██ ', ' █████ ', ' ██ ', ' ███ '], ':': [' ', '██ ', ' ', '██ ', ' '], '&': [' ███ ', '██ ██ ', ' █████ ██ ', '██ ███ ', ' █████ ██ '], ' ': [' ',' ',' ',' ',' '] } def _Big_text(text: str): lines = [""] * 5 text = text.upper() for char in text: pattern = ascii.get(char, [" ??? " ] * 5) for i in range(5): lines[i] += pattern[i] for line in lines: print(line) inpt = input("Enter a string: ") _Big_text(inpt)

Back in the old days, it was SDS and vanilla lisp lol. There’s a blog here that mentions support for FAS/VLX https://www.intellicad.org/articles-and-press-releases/2025-recap-intellicad-14-developer-tools-and-ecosystem-momentum One of the contributors to the Python project made a super cool test suite, so I have some coverage with IcARX(ARC). I don’t have a unit test for lisp except for resbuf wrapper that I pass to the lisp engine, those pass. It will be interesting to see how they progress.

I post the 3d house image often and a version of that software was available for Intellicad back in the 90's, there was no VL lisp in those days. It was very good then and seen as a competitor to LT,

I was able to connect with ITC Directly and report the items I felt are important from an API perspective. AcRxClass::dxfName() is null with AcDbObject AcDbObject::close() has an access violation if called twice. I think the next release or so of IntelliCAD will be a real competitor in the space. Assuming pricing is stable, there’s no reason to buy any ‘lite’ version of CAD

But there’s stuff missing, from the automated tests in PyRx "collecting ... collected 529 items / 210 deselected / 3 skipped / 319 selected" There are 210 tests that I had to disable to get a clean run. I’m still working through them, I disabled the whole class on some tests all the test_Ax**** tests are not accurate, I've not worked through them yet Filename NextLine -------- -------- test_Ax3DFace.py class TestAx3dFace: test_Ax3DPolyline.py class TestAx3DPolyline: test_Ax3DSolid.py class TestAx3DSolid: test_AxAcadSortentsTable.py class TestAcadSortentsTable: test_AxAcadSortentsTable.py test_AxApplication.py class TestAxApplication: test_AxArc.py class TestAxArc: test_AxAttribute.py class TestAxAttribute: test_AxBlock.py class TestAxBlock: test_AxBlockReference.py class TestAxBlockReference: test_AxBlockReference.py class TestAxDynBlockReference: test_AxCircle.py class TestAxCircle: test_AxDatabase.py class TestAxDatabase: test_AxDocument.py class TestAxDocument: test_AxEllipse.py class TestAxEllipse: test_AxEntity.py class TestAxEntity: test_AxGroup.py fail test_AxLayout.py class TestAxLayout: test_AxLWPolyline.py def test_getcoordinate(self): test_AxLWPolyline.py test_AxMenu.py class TestAxMenu: test_AxModelSpace.py class TestAxModelSpace: test_AxObject.py class TestAxObject: test_AxPoint.py class TestAxPoint: test_AxPolygonMesh.py class TestAxPolygonMesh : test_AxPolyline.py class TestAxPolyline: test_AxPreferences.py class TestAxPreferences: test_AxPreferences.py class TestSelection: test_AxPreferences.py class TestDrafting: test_AxPreferences.py class TestDisplay: test_AxPreferences.py class TestPrefFiles: test_AxSummaryInfo.py class TestAxSummaryInfo: test_AxTable.py class TestAxTable: test_AxUtility.py class TestAxUtility: test_Brep.py class TestBrep: test_AssocPersSubentIdPE.py test_AttributeDefinition.py (mtext attributes) test_AttributeDefinition.py test_Database.py def test_dbopbject_dxfname(self, db_06457: Db.Database): test_Database.py def test_getSummaryInfo(self): test_Database.py def test_blocktable(self, db_06457: Db.Database): test_Database.py def test_GeoPositionMarker(self, db_geo: Db.Database): test_Database.py def test_GeoData(self, db_geo: Db.Database) -> None: test_Database.py def test_GeoData_transformFromLonLatAlt(self, db_geo: Db.Database) -> None: test_Database.py def test_tdusrtimer(self) -> None: test_DbObject.py def test_property_ids2(self): test_DbObject.py def test_undo_recording(self): test_DbObject.py def test_BinaryData(self): test_DbObject.py def test_BinaryXdData(self): test_entity.py def test_dbtext(self): test_entity.py def test_dbleader(self): test_entity.py def test_table_cells1(self, db_06457: Db.Database): //missing iterator test_entity.py def test_table_cells2(self, db_06457: Db.Database): //missing iterator test_entity.py def test_table_cellValues1(self, db_06457: Db.Database): //missing iterator test_entity.py def test_table_cellValues2(self, db_06457: Db.Database): //missing iterator test_entity.py def test_table_cellValues4(self, db_06457: Db.Database): //missing iterator test_entity.py def test_table_calcTextExtents(self): test_entity.py def test_create_wipout(self): test_entity.py def test_create_extruded_surface(self): test_SortentsTable.py def test_getinstance(self): test_XrefGraph.py def test_XrefGraph(self, db_xrefGraph: Db.Database): test_Editor.py def test_evaluateDiesel(self): test_Curve2d.py def test_ge2dcurve_length(self): test_Curve3d.py def test_Ge_lineseg3d_1(self): test_Curve3d.py def test_ge3dcurve_length(self): test_GsCore.py def test_gs_getBlockImage(self, db_dynblock: Db.Database): test_RxObject.py def test_name(self): test_SheetSet.py class TestSheetSet: test_wx.py def test_wx_CallAfter(self): test_block_reference.py def test_get_attribute(self, db_06457: Db.Database): test_prompt.py def test_select_entity_without_type(self): test_prompt.py def test_select_entity_with_single_type(self): test_prompt.py def test_select_entity_with_multiple_types(self): test_reload.py class Test_Reload: test_reload.py class Test_reload_func:

Thanks! I’m always rooting for the underdog, I guess to promote competition in the space. I’ve been goofing around with the clones since the early days. I think before version 9. Every year, I download the trial and try out the IARX SDK. The trial is 14 days, this is the first time I was able to get past day 1 and run some real tests. Here’s my little mini review of the API. - I was able to compile my custom object https://github.com/CEXT-Dan/ArxTin While I didn’t test all the protocols, the important ones work great! dwgOutFields, dwgInFields, subWorldDraw, subTransformBy etc. The most impressive thing besides it working, is the subWorldDraw performance. In this sample, I’m pushing 10s of thousands of edges to the graphics interface and transformby is as fast a moving a line. A $250 cad is out performing a $1200 cad by 10x

My mail box thinks you're spam , well punk are you? (with the voice of Clint Eastwood ) Oh I thought you wanted all ents inside block updated... silly me... good news is nos problemos, the bad news is , dragons never know when to stop and just have to go over the top so its gonna take more time before I'm satisfied (not the youngest dragon on the block anymore ya know)