sld files usage

[rock1]

Hello

 

I took a library of cad symbols during my old college days and found today sld files.. how to use them in autocad drawings? any idea?

[Murph_map]

Use the VSLIDE command if you want to do a slide display or animation. If you want to display them as part of a menu or dialog then you need to call them in the menu files or dcl files. Not knowing when you went to college but with todays versions of AutoCAD the slides are almost obsolete.

[BIGAL]

I grew up on slides use them all the time in menus they work very well have the advantage over a palette that you can capture the image the way you want not just a dwg view.

 

Your menu has a ICON section

 

***MENUGROUP=AlanSTDS
***POP15
**CADLIB
            [LIBRARY]
            [->Stddwgs]
            [TRENCH]$I=AlanSTDS.TRENCH $I=*
            [PIPES]$I=AlanSTDS.PIPES $I=*
            [PITS]$I=AlanSTDS.PITS $I=*  

.....
 

***image
**TRENCH
[TRENCH]
[AlanSLD(CGG101,KERB)]^C^C(openblk "P:/ACADSTDS/CIVIL STANDARDS/CGG101") 
[AlanSLD(CGG102,NATURE)]^C^C(openblk "P:/ACADSTDS/CIVIL STANDARDS/CGG102") 
**PIPES
[PIPES]
[AlanSLD(SD201,SUBSOIL)]^C^C(openblk "P:/ACADSTDS/CIVIL STANDARDS/CGG201") 
[AlanSLD(SD202,FLUSHOUT)]^C^C(openblk "P:/ACADSTDS/CIVIL STANDARDS/CGG202") 
[AlanSLD(SD203,CATCH)]^C^C(openblk "P:/ACADSTDS/CIVIL STANDARDS/CGG203") 
[AlanSLD(SD204,HOUSE)]^C^C(openblk "P:/ACADSTDS/CIVIL STANDARDS/CGG204")

[rock1]

Use the VSLIDE command if you want to do a slide display or animation. If you want to display them as part of a menu or dialog then you need to call them in the menu files or dcl files. Not knowing when you went to college but with todays versions of AutoCAD the slides are almost obsolete.

 

I can only view the slide but not actually use them using the vslide command. How to actually make them a part of my drawing. Like i can edit each and every line of them?

 

I grew up on slides use them all the time in menus they work very well have the advantage over a palette that you can capture the image the way you want not just a dwg view.

 

Your menu has a ICON section

 

***MENUGROUP=AlanSTDS
***POP15
**CADLIB
            [LIBRARY]
            [->Stddwgs]
            [TRENCH]$I=AlanSTDS.TRENCH $I=*
            [PIPES]$I=AlanSTDS.PIPES $I=*
            [PITS]$I=AlanSTDS.PITS $I=*  

.....
 

***image
**TRENCH
[TRENCH]
[AlanSLD(CGG101,KERB)]^C^C(openblk "P:/ACADSTDS/CIVIL STANDARDS/CGG101") 
[AlanSLD(CGG102,NATURE)]^C^C(openblk "P:/ACADSTDS/CIVIL STANDARDS/CGG102") 
**PIPES
[PIPES]
[AlanSLD(SD201,SUBSOIL)]^C^C(openblk "P:/ACADSTDS/CIVIL STANDARDS/CGG201") 
[AlanSLD(SD202,FLUSHOUT)]^C^C(openblk "P:/ACADSTDS/CIVIL STANDARDS/CGG202") 
[AlanSLD(SD203,CATCH)]^C^C(openblk "P:/ACADSTDS/CIVIL STANDARDS/CGG203") 
[AlanSLD(SD204,HOUSE)]^C^C(openblk "P:/ACADSTDS/CIVIL STANDARDS/CGG204")

 

What do you mean? I don't understand. I don't know any coding/computer language. I'm a simple user. Sorry ..

[dbroada]

You don't use the slides IN drawings. They are provided as a means of viewing what is available. For instance, you may have a slide of a door that is linked (as shown by BIGAL) to a command to insert the door block in to your drawing. The slides themselves have no interaction with AutoCAD.

[ReMark]

You cannot edit anything (ex. - lines) you see in a slide. It's just a pretty picture.

 

I've used slides in the past, along with a script, to display a series of drawings one after the other during an open house held at a consulting engineering firm I worked for. The slides were of drawings for various projects the company had worked on in the past. The script would load the slide, display it for a few seconds, then move on to the next slide in order. The script was written such that when it had displayed the last slide it would loop and the presentation would repeat. This was a desirable feature since no one wants to sit at a computer pulling up one drawing after another to show a group of people throughout an entire evening. That just wouldn't leave time for important stuff like scarfing down canapes and drinking spiked punch! LoL