Lee Mac 369 Posted January 15, 2011 (edited) Generalising on an idea I've had for a while, I offer this program to allow you to import (humourously: 'steal') items from another drawing into the current drawing. Steal Upon running the program the user is prompted for a selection of a drawing to steal from, and, upon selection, a dialog appears detailing items available for import. The user may choose multiple items from a list of... Blocks Layers Linetypes Dimension Styles Text Styles Table Styles MLeader Styles MLine Styles Layouts Page Setups User Coordinate Systems Views Groups Layer States Scales Materials Viewports Drawing Properties Custom Properties ...should these collections contain any items which aren't already present in the current drawing. Dialog Preview A full description of the program and the latest version can be found here. Enjoy! Lee StealV1-8.lsp Edited September 17, 2012 by Lee Mac Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
lpseifert 10 Posted January 15, 2011 Thanks Lee, especially useful for Mleaders and Mlines since they aren't available through Design Center. How about Civil 3D styles next? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lee Mac 369 Posted January 15, 2011 Thanks Lee, especially useful for Mleaders and Mlines since they aren't available through Design Center. Thanks Larry - glad you could find it useful How about Civil 3D styles next? Ah.... Haven't had any experience with those... I'm a Vanilla guy Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
lpseifert 10 Posted January 15, 2011 Ah.... Haven't had any experience with those... I'm a Vanilla guy Yeah I know... I was just wishing out loud Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lee Mac 369 Posted January 15, 2011 ... I was just wishing out loud lol I do that sometimes... gets me into trouble Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Tharwat 118 Posted January 15, 2011 Thank you Lee. Your efforts are highly appreciated . Tharwat Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lee Mac 369 Posted January 15, 2011 Thank you Lee. Your efforts are highly appreciated . You're very welcome Tharwat Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ReMark 86 Posted January 15, 2011 I'd rename the program kleptomania. LOL Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jack_O'neill 11 Posted January 15, 2011 How about layouts and page setups, pen widths and colors and all that? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lee Mac 369 Posted January 15, 2011 I'd rename the program kleptomania. LOL :lol: Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lee Mac 369 Posted January 15, 2011 (edited) How about layouts and page setups' date=' pen widths and colors and all that?[/quote'] Easy on there Jack... I thought I might get a working program first Edited January 16, 2011 by Lee Mac Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jack_O'neill 11 Posted January 16, 2011 Should these collections contain any items which aren't already present in the current drawing Easy on there Jack... I thought I might get a working program first Ask and ye shall recieve... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lee Mac 369 Posted January 16, 2011 I have updated the first post to Version 1.1 - this changes the behaviour of the dialog, so that far more can be imported in a single run of the program. I've also added a couple of new collections to the list. Enjoy! Lee Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lee Mac 369 Posted January 16, 2011 Ask and ye shall recieve... I think you misunderstood my post - Should these collections contain any items which aren't already present in the current drawing. By this I mean that the collections listed in the first post (blocks/layers/linetypes etc) will only be displayed in the dialog if they contain items which aren't already present in the current drawing. But yes, I do welcome ideas Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jack_O'neill 11 Posted January 16, 2011 I think you misunderstood my post - Apparently so. Sorry. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lee Mac 369 Posted January 16, 2011 Apparently so. Sorry. No worries mate Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
pBe 37 Posted January 17, 2011 Where'd you come up with these ideas Lee Mac. The routine is very useful. Can you include a list of XREF as well. but generate a filter to exclude XREF style/layers/textstyle/blocks and the like. Thanks Lee Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
irneb 14 Posted January 17, 2011 Actually I very often need to update some of these "settings" from a template file. Importing them is quite easy with a simple copy-n-paste / drag-n-drop from Design Centre. What I've always had difficulty with is "redefining" something like a dimstyle to match that inside another DWG. In that particular case I "love" BricsCAD's Drawing Explorer. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Tharwat 118 Posted January 17, 2011 Lee , The program is really great . I started to get used to it almost daily , I do like it. Is it possible to have a preview as well as the one which is included with the Block Insertion Message Box ? Thank you. Tharwat Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lee Mac 369 Posted January 17, 2011 Where'd you come up with these ideas Lee Mac. The routine is very useful.Can you include a list of XREF as well. but generate a filter to exclude XREF style/layers/textstyle/blocks and the like. To be honest, I wanted to steer clear of XRefs at present as I believe they would require a different method to 'import' them else they would arrive in the drawing unreferenced. But your point has reminded me that I currently need to filter out any XRef items from the other collections. I started to get used to it almost daily , I do like it. Excellent to hear! Is it possible to have a preview as well as the one which is included with the Block Insertion Message Box ? Not impossible with LISP, but certainly very, very difficult. I have seen it done here, but its a pretty convoluted method. Lee Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
