Looking for some good tutorials

April 25, 2012

Hey all,

What I'm doing is trying to learn how to make visuallisp reference a excel spreadsheet. My problem, I have some experience working in autolisp and am in to process of teaching my self more. I am getting the grips on visual lisp, and am trying to understand the syntax which seems easier than autolisp, but autolisp syntax seems to make a little more since to me. Any way, I'm getting off topic. I looking for a couple good tutorials on visuallisp syntax, referencing a .csv and having it read from it. The project I'm working on is as follows; I'm trying to modify layernames, colors, and linetypes based on information i have in an excel spreadsheet.

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ex:

layer name "not right" --- should be layer name "some standard layer"

layer color "7" --- should be layer color "7"

line type "hidden".--- should be line type "hidden"

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"some standard layer" has "color" and "line type" in the cells following it.

based on the color and linetype i want to rename the layer to a predefined but (not created) layer.

now, i can rationalize the steps it will take to make a routine to do this, my problem lies in the lack of knowledge of VL syntax.

Anyone have good links or advice?

April 25, 2012

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