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Does Autocad MEP support lisp?


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I'm pretty sure it does but I'd like to know for sure

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Why would you think otherwise? It's built atop full AutoCAD isn't it?

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I know nothing about MEP. I assumed it had full autocad capabilities but I wanted to make sure. I'm talking to a company now (for employement) and that's all they use. I just wanted to make sure.

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I'd start thinking about to to .NET and forget programming in lisp. VBA is out too. I guess the only other option is C++.

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they're phasing out autolisp??? It's funny you say C++ because I recently started to studing that.

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I'd start thinking about to going to .NET and forget programming in lisp. VBA is out too. I guess the only other option is C++.

 

LISP will be around for a while yet - it is in ADesk's interest to include it, furthermore, at no expense to them. The beauty of LISP is that it can encompass a multitude of tasks, with very little code or time spent programming.

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they're phasing out autolisp??? It's funny you say C++ because I recently started to studing that.

 

No, AutoDesk is not phasing out lisp. I suggested looking at .NET or C++ only as alternatives.

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I see. Thanks for the info :D

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No, AutoDesk is not phasing out lisp. I suggested looking at .NET or C++ only as alternatives.
VBA is dead, it just doesn't know it yet. It's also tied to ActiveX which isn't updated at all - so there's stuff which are impossible to do with it. Lisp is still useful as it has the old raw-data methods as well as ActiveX, it also runs direct off the command line (no need for external compilers) and works (mostly) with any ACad version as is without needing re-compile. However, it depends on what you want to do. There are things you simply cannot do in lisp ... for those you'll need a programming language which handles DotNet (VB.Net / C# / Delphi / Python / almost anything really). And then there's some even deeper stuff which have yet to be included in the DotNet managed classes, for that you're stuck with ObjectARX and C++.

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