Ascii

[pjmac]

I am attempting to teach myself AutoLisp. I am going through the tutorials on AfraLisp and am having trouble save a routine. I am told to

 

"Now, save this file as "testline.lsp" remembering, to save it as a ASCII Text file and ensuring that it is saved in a directory in your AutoCAD's search path. Now open AutoCAD and type this :"

 

I am not sure what a ASCII text file is and is not in my drop down menu on notepad.

 

Any advice would be appreciated. Thank you.

 

Peter

[MSasu]

ASCII file is just what "text" file - it contains letters, numbers, punctuation marks and carriage returns. For Notepad just select the *.TXT option.

 

I suggest you to use the VisualLISP editor that come with AutoCAD instead of Notepad since there you will have access to better functionalities.

 

Regards,

Mircea

[Lee Mac]

Set the 'Save as Type' box to 'All Files', with 'Encoding' set to 'ANSI'; ensure the filename has a '.lsp' extension:

 

[pjmac]

autocad is not finding it. Is there a way that i can see what autocad's search path is?

[Lee Mac]

Tools > Options > Files > Support File Search Path

[pjmac]

Thank you Lee Mac. That was my first time writing a program.

[Lee Mac]

You're welcome

 

Maybe my tutorial will help fill in the blanks:

 

http://lee-mac.com/runlisp.html

[pjmac]

I will check it out. Thanks again.

[fuccaro]

In Windows environment, also you can load a lsp file by dragging it in the drawing area.