steelcom Posted June 25, 2015 Author Share Posted June 25, 2015 Big Al, not to be a pain in the butt, but can you expand on how to use the lisp file? I've saved it, run appload and tried to use it, but not quite sure how. I've tried quite a few different ways but without reliable results. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dadgad Posted June 25, 2015 Share Posted June 25, 2015 BIGAL is probably gone for the day as it is about 10 or 11:00 pm, if I am not mistaken, where he lives in Australia. He'll be back on in the morning though. If you want to learn about lisp, or access any of Lee's very generously offered lisps, you should definitely check out the following link to Lee Mac's incredible website. http://www.lee-mac.com/index.html Thanks Lee! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobDraw Posted June 25, 2015 Share Posted June 25, 2015 I thought you didn't want to draw the panels because it would clutter up your drawings. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steelcom Posted June 25, 2015 Author Share Posted June 25, 2015 I believe that I was speaking of the lines I would use to offset the length of the panels by 1/2" overall. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BIGAL Posted June 26, 2015 Share Posted June 26, 2015 The code is only say the 1st part in about 4 steps of coding, it seemed to make sense to me that you wanted the size of a panel that fitted within a certain area minus 1/2". ps I work in metric. If you draw a sq 10x10 feet or metric appload the lisp even paste it direct to the command line, it asks for a point just pick in middle of the 10x10 sq a 2.5 offset object will appear. I turned off a number of layers in your drawing to get what I thought was the required panel area, it must be a enclosed area a "U" will not work the Bpoly is an Autocad command Boundary polygon so works basicly for any internal shape including curves. I drew 9 panels in 1.5 secs as fast as I could pick. Next 5 steps of coding work out from rectang the length and width the 2 points for the new dims erase the bpoly no longer required draw the dims or lines or both its up to you on correct layer pick next location The white squares are on layer 0 they represent your 1/2" inwards change the value 2.5 in the code to 0.25 that was just for me testing I changed the drawing units to feet and 0.25 gives 1/4" egde. I am not sure that I have isolated the correct panel areas that is something you need to look at. Is it meant to work from the middle of the double lines etc ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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