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Offset polyline trimming
benhubel posted a topic in AutoCAD 2D Drafting, Object Properties & Interface
I am hoping this will be a simple fix, but searching for the answer has turned up nothing. If I offset a self-intersecting polyline, it trims the offset anywhere that it crosses the original polyline. I am looking for a way for the offset to continue through self intersections untrimmed. My hope is that the self-trimming is a "feature", and that there is a way to turn it off, perhaps through a system variable or something. If not, the only way I can think to fix it is to write my own custom offset which doesn't sound very efficient. ps. Although I'm posting this in the general autocad area, I'm open to solutions that require autolisp. The reason I'm looking for this answer is to be used in an automated routine once I get past this hurdle. ***edit*** I found this thread , but it doesn't give a solution (aside from "use an ancient version on AutoCAD"). -
How to get data to an attribute from enclosing polyline's property
mhmtlgrr posted a topic in AutoLISP, Visual LISP & DCL
Dear folks, There is an idea to get things easier in my workflow but I need check if it is possible or not. There are over 100 closed polyline objects on the model and each has a unique ID written in its Hyperlink value (like X_D_YYYY) And each of these polylines has a block placed in the enclosing area with an attribute. My aim is to get the Hyperlink from enclosing polyline and populate the block attribute with that value. You may find an example as DWG at the attachment. Regards. get-Enclosing-polyline-data.dwg -
Hi, I converted a pdf file into dwg. In this new file a point has become a group of 2D polyline and not a sigle entity. This conversion is necessary because I have to work in autocad. My problem is that I have to search in this dwg all of this "points" and write a text next to. Is possible to write a VBA program for autocad able to do this? If the point was a single point, it wouldn't be a problem, but in this case...I dont' know!
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Sorting mixed order points on a polyline object
nkeseci posted a topic in AutoLISP, Visual LISP & DCL
Hi, Can anyone help me to write a lisp function to sort the points (assume the intersection points) on a polyline? With my code, I have a polyline object and a set of intersection points on it. I need to calculate the cumulative distance between those points and vertex points consecutively. Thanks, -
So I'm having an issue joining some polylines I have in order to make a dimer shape (two circles meeting at one point, with two lines connecting them). I started by making the circles, followed by two lines extending from circle to circle. I then trimmed the lines to get the attached geometry. However, I cannot join the shape, and was wondering how this could be done. Thanks! Dimer_Help.dwg
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Wish To Snap While Running Polyline Command
"Mitch" posted a topic in AutoCAD 2D Drafting, Object Properties & Interface
While running in Line command I'm able to snap along the way, snap my running line to itself at each sub prompt: "Specify next point or..." When I try this with the Polyline command, while running polyline at each sub prompt: "Specify next point or..." no snap can be acknowledged. My Polyline won't snap to itself while running toward successive points. All Object Snaps are checked in it's dialog box. Alignment Point Acquisition is set to Automatic. Is there another setting or a system variable that needs to be toggled, maybe something related specifically to Polylines? -
LISP - Automatic dimensions according to set rules
Kyler posted a topic in AutoLISP, Visual LISP & DCL
Hello everyone, I work with a glazing company and am trying to write an AutoLISP command that will automate a large part of our job by dimensioning glass panels with holes and cutout in the format that our supplier prefers. I will attach a photo here to show what I have done so far. The rectangle on the left shows what I would like the dimensions to look like. The rectangle on the right shows what my LISP routine currently does. I am having trouble writing the logic to dimension it in the way that I want. Rules it should follow are: 1) dimensions strings should be made to the corner nearest to the hole 2) if two holes are in-line, the dimension should pass through the closer hole 3) if two dimensions go to the same corner, they should stack at 3" intervals (TYP. offset set for DIMBASELINE) 4) Dimension strings should always be 3" behind the larger dimension above them (See the 5" measure at the top left) However, these rules only hold true for the "rectangle" shape option. In the final version of the routine, I am looking to have an easily expandable list of rules that I can modify and tweak per-shape. I have attached a test drawing and the current version of my LISP routine below. The code for dimensioning rules on the rectangle is found on lines 436-494. Any help figuring this out would be much appreciated. Thank you! Drawing File: autodimtest.dwg Current LISP: autoDim.lsp -
1st Post, woot woot. I searched through many of the existing forums but couldn't find one that addressed this issue... I work a lot with polylines, to create design contours. I usually have a contour at the bottom or top of a hill, then I use the 'offset' command to offset the line to conform to a 3:1 slope as far as I need, to tie into the existing topo. My problem is, after offsetting all these plines, they are all at the same elevation as the original line. Is there a faster way to change the elevation than clicking on a line, entering the elevation in the properties window, clicking on a new line, wash-rinse-repeat? This is very tedious, especially with 20+ offset lines each time. Or is there a way to offset with increasing/decreasing elevations each time? Thanks
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I'm still learning Lisps and am in the need of a function. I'm not going to say what i need it for, i want to try and write the lisp from the input of this forum. I need to know how to store the polyline width of a user selected polyline. for example, if i select a polyline and i run my lisp, or vice versa, the lisp will store the global width of the selected polyline into memory. (setq PW (ssget "polyline width") After i get this info, i will post my lisp and what it does. After you guys can share how you would have done it instead. and it will probably be better then my way. thanks ahead of time.
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i am new to all of this. would love to be able to remove all or most vertex's for any and all of my artwork. as for now i need to remove them from a circle. i do not know what the codes are for or how to use them. any help, would help.. i hopesecond sign Y.dxf second sign W.dxf
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I have a number of large files that have multiple layers with many simple objects. I wish to have a LISP program that searches the file and for certain layers, it looks for line and arcs that have the same start or end points I.E. a line has one end point that matches an arc or another line start point. Once it has found these, it converts the lines or arc into polylines and joins them together. I have a number of squares or rectangles that are constructed from simple lines and I want to end up with a closed polyline that is the same size as the original rectangle. This could also be an odd shape comprised of arcs and lines that is either open of a closed shape. I wont to convert these to polylines also (either open or closed depending on if the lines are enclosed or open). Can anyone suggest how to write this. I have very little experience of LISP.
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Hello to all, I have a challenge to place text markers along a polyline. As this polyline represents the trace of an linear object (in my case cable line) I would like to have at every 250m the length from the start of the line represented as "X +YYY", where X is the kilometer and YYY are the meters. Also it would be good to have the length from the start at every vertex. Can anyone help me with this, as I have no knowledge from lisp programing. Regards and thanks in advance!
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Circle displaying in Viewport, but not in Model space
HFBandit posted a topic in AutoCAD Bugs, Error Messages & Quirks
Hi all I'm working on some information that I have imported into LT 2017 from 12D survey software. Basically I have a road string (polyline made up of arcs) and I'm tidying it up. All I have done to this string is break it and change the layer it is on. When I go into Paper space and look at my plan layout, the broken polyline displays as though it is a full circle. In Model space it looks how it ought. I have double-clicked in the viewport and selected the circle and changed the colour for easy identification. Then, when I go back to Model space, I have a red curved polyline. No circle. I have also tried copying the polyline as a block and pasting it into paper space. It displays as it ought to. If I paste it back into Model Space, it retains its characteristics - i.e. curve in model space, circle in paper space. If I explode the polyline into its component arcs and join them together again, it begins to behave properly. This never used to happen in prior versions of CAD, and my co-worker has had a similar problem. She says it's not a consistent fault - sometimes the display behaves and sometimes it doesn't. I have run audits and purges and all sorts of fun things and have achieved nothing. It prints correctly, but the preview shows it as a circle also. Any ideas, or similar issues? -
Select every line in drawing and convert to polyline
GISdude posted a topic in AutoCAD 2D Drafting, Object Properties & Interface
Hi all, I thought there might be an intuitive/simple way to do this. I've tried the lisp routine SSX, BUT when you run the routine you can't "keep" the selection to use the PEDIT command. Is there something I'm missing here? -
Draw polyline and write text above/under/near with lenght
hjsolf posted a topic in AutoCAD Beginners' Area
Hello. I'm looking for a way to draw a polyline, where i enter the points with mouse clicking and when i click the final point and enter button, it writes in text the total lenght of polyline. I know that i can go to the properties and see the total lenght of the polyline and then i can use mtext to write that value near my polyline, but because i have to do that more than 1000s times, i was wondering if there is a faster way or a lisp routine. All ideas are welcome. P.S. I'm using Autocad 2009 and i'm beginner/medium user. Thank you -
Hi all, I am using AutoCad 2015, the problem I have is that when I select a polyline, do select similar and change the global width to 0.15 (for example) then when I save the drawing and re-open it, when I select the polyline and select similar, it says the global width is varies. I know this sounds like a rather minor problem but at work, everything gets checked and these kind of small errors do have a rather large effect on our performance rating. The strange thing about this is that it only happens for some drawings and not all drawings. Unfortunately that is all the information I really have on the problem so I hope that is enough. Thank you for your time, Josh
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VBA - Command Fillet on 2 single Polyline does not work!
khoinp1012 posted a topic in .NET, ObjectARX & VBA
I met a very "strange" behavior of VBA with Fillet Command send via ThisDrawing.SendCommand function. I have the function Fillet_2Line (line1, line2, r), which will apply the Fillet command to line1, line2 with Radius=R Sub fillet_2line(line1 As Variant, line2 As Variant, radius As Double) Dim text As String text = "f" & vbCr & "r" & vbCr & radius & vbCr & "(handent " & Chr(34) & line1.Handle & Chr(34) & ")" & vbCr & "(handent " & Chr(34) & line2.Handle & Chr(34) & ")" & vbCr ThisDrawing.SendCommand (text) End Sub As you can see, the function is very simple, call Fillet command from Autocad then select two lines by their handle. Use can reproduce the function without VBA by call Fillet command and select two POLILINES by their HANDLE. However, it works on LINE, but NOT POLYLINE. If I select two polylines by left click on them, it works. But if I select two polylines by their HANDLE, it does not work! Fillet 2 Line - Selected by left click - Works Fillet 2 Line - Selected by handle - Works Fillet 2 PLine - Selected left click - Works Fillet 2 PLine - Selected by handle - Does not work -
Hi all, was just wondering how to convert a bunch of lines into one continuous polyline?
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Hi! First of all, This is my first post here and I'm not an EXPERT in english, so I will try to explain as good as possible. I'm using Inventor 2012 and AutoCAD Mechanical 2012. In Inventor I have a piece in which it was applied the punching tool (Custom one) it works Perfectly, but when I export it to autoCAD it comes with too many points or vertex, I know if I draw it in autocad I wont have that problem, what that's why we use a Punch Tool, to simplify things and get things easier and always the same. Re-draw is out of the question, unless its the ONLY solution.. We use two CNC Plasma Machine, one of them uses the Software CamBAM and it can edit the vertex and simplifies it and jobs done, but it cant export the job to .dwg or .dxf.. and the second and new machine (the one i'm having trouble) uses FastCAM software, it has something similar to adjust the vertex but, the real problem is within the FastNEST.. Either way, the best solution is to fix the drawing in autocad. EDITPOL doesnt work, as it just joins it, I need to make less points.. I could Upload the file if needed. I'd Really Appreciate any help given. Thanks and Again sorry for my many typos.o:)
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Dear all, I'm a newcomer I already read the forums a few times and found answers all the time, but sadly its not that time. My problem is te following: I got a 61MB big drawing which i should modify. Sadly my computer isn't fast enough to handle that much information. I attached an example which shows why the file is this big. (Sadly i'm not able to upload this in dwg, because the example file which i made also takes 5MB of free space... ) There you can see that loops are made from much-much more lines than needed. If i could unite lines which has the same X or Y coordinates that would come out in a smaller file size and lesser CPU capacity. Do we have any command which does something like this? Do you have any other idea how to correct this kind of thing? Any help is appriciated. Thanks in advance! The picture about the problem:
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Hi All, I have a non-square polyline and I would like to either shrink or expand it by, for example, 1 mm in all directions. The scale command doesn't work because that keeps all of the ratios the same which I don't want to happen. I'm using AutoCAD 2013. Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
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Centre of Gravity of a group of Open or Closed Polylines
neodesigner posted a topic in AutoLISP, Visual LISP & DCL
I work as a boat designer and often require calculating total length of polyline & centre of gravity (both open & closed polylines). I have a snippet below to show the sample code I am currently using - this only works with a group of lines - it doesnt work with polylines. Currently everytime I have to calculate the CG, I have to copy the polyline over, explode it & select the lines to calculate the CG. The logic is as follows - assuming we have 3 segments on the polyline(A,B,C) : Centre of Gravity of Polyline = (Len of A multiplied by Centroid of A + Len of b multiplied by Centroid of B + Len of C multiplied by Centroid of C) divided by Total Length of polyline I am new to LISP & although have some background in other programming languages, find it is relatively difficult to write the code, the syntax being very different. I found a similar code ( TotalADD Total Addition by Andrea Andreetti & modified to come to the below code). It would be ideal if I can select a group of polylines (using select similar) and run the command to get a text table in autocad with CG & total length calculated for set of polylines on different layers. But I am not sure how this can be achieved. Would you be able to help or am I asking for too much ? any guidance will be much appreciated. (if (eq (vla-get-objectname n) "AcDbLine") (progn (setq itemlinelength (+ itemlinelength (vla-get-length n))) (setq StartPoint(vlax-safearray->list (vlax-variant-value (vla-get-startpoint n)))) (setq x1 (car Startpoint)) (setq y1 (cadr Startpoint)) (setq EndPoint(vlax-safearray->list (vlax-variant-value (vla-get-endpoint n)))) (setq x2 (car endpoint)) (setq y2 (cadr endpoint)) (setq xmid (* (+ x1 x2) 0.5)) (setq ymid (* (+ y1 y2) 0.5)) (setq xmom (* xmid (vla-get-length n))) (setq ymom (* ymid (vla-get-length n))) (setq itemxmoment (+ itemxmoment xmom)) (setq itemymoment (+ itemymoment ymom)) ) ) (setq totxcg (/ itemxmoment itemlinelength)) (setq totycg (/ itemymoment itemlinelength)) (setq tlength (rtos itemlength 2 ) (setq totxcg (rtos totxcg 2 ) (setq totycg (rtos totycg 2 ) (acet-ui-status (strcat "Length: " tlength "\n" "X CoG Pos: " totxcg "\n" "Y CoG Pos: " totycg "\n" ) -
Associative and dynamic text length to a Polyline.
CafeJr posted a topic in AutoLISP, Visual LISP & DCL
Hi to all, Please someone knows one lisp to get length of a PL (polyline) and write it above this PL in associative and dynamics form? As the Picture. If the length is changed the text follow these data. Thanks in advance. -
Hi everybody, this is my first post. I need a Lisp to generate a polyline from existing points. The polyline should be created from all the points at the edge of the cloud of points generated by a 3d scanner. The points are in 3 dimensions, but they could be flatted to zero. The polyline can be close or open: it does not matter. Any idea? Thank you folks in advance. dave:acad:
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Extracting the coordinates from a rectangle in modelspace
chiimayred posted a topic in AutoLISP, Visual LISP & DCL
Hey guys, I'm trying to get the four corners of a rectangle in modelspace set to variables and I'm having a hard time with it. I'm able to get the four corners into a list, but I'm having a hard time setting each coordinate to a variable. The issue I'm having at this point is that the second variable duplicates the coordinate values. The first variable Here's what I got so far... (defun c:test (/ ptlist x y) (setq ptlist (massoc 10 (entget(car(entsel))))) (defun c:massoc (key alist / x nlist) (foreach x alist (if (eq key (car x)) (setq nlist (cons (cdr x) nlist)) ) ) (reverse nlist) ) ;end (princ ptlist) (setq x (car ptlist)) (setq y (cadr ptlist)) (princ) (princ x) (Princ) (princ y) ) I got part of this code from here When I draw in a rectangle in modelspace and I use this code, this is what I'm getting. Command: TEST Select object: ((18.2488 -11.0958) (23.6419 -11.0958) (23.6419 -5.32136) (18.2488 -5.32136))(18.2488 -11.0958)(23.6419 -11.0958)(23.6419 -11.0958) So it builds the list and sets the first variable right, but it duplicates the second. Thanks in advance! e: I haven't added in error trapping yet, just trying to figure this out first.
