Old School Flexible Ductwork

[Grounder]

I was asked to help figure out why a certain lisp routine which worked with Autocad 2014 doesn't work with AutoCAD MEP 2015.

 

Although I don't know much about Autolisp, I thought I'd give it a try, but I've gotten to a stopping point and cannot get past it.

 

I am posting the lisp routine along with some associated dwgs and a screen capture of what it's supposed to look like when it does work in hopes that someone can assist with this.

 

Your help is greatly appreciated.

dflex.lsp

FlexDuct.dwg

FlexDrop.dwg

[BIGAL]

Please if you post un encrypted lisp at least reorder to a readable state. The lisp as posted will not work its been re formatted in some way.

[Grounder]

My apologies. I didn't know you could encrypt Lisps and not certain what you mean by a readable state. I open it in Notepad and edit it that way.

[rlx]

Made a few changes , first of all , program tries to load a (lisp) file called 'makegroup'. Since it is not included had to disable it.

 

 

With the measure command you use (list flx-ln FS-PT) , but the command only needs the object and not a list of the object and a point. Tried to put the blockname of the 'FlexDuct' in a findfile construction , and this works , but symbol is saved with higher release of autocad I'm currently working with so for me this is the end of the road so to speak. I have attached the updated lisp file , maybe it can get you a step further.

 

 

 

Your routine won't win a beauty contest (unlike me haha) but if it works , who cares about the format but you.

 

 

 

 

have you tried this one : http://lee-mac.com/objectalign.html

 

 

there a tons of routines to align a block along polyline

 

 

 

Gr. Rlx

dflex.lsp

Edited June 16, 2017 by rlx

[BIGAL]

Why not just a line type ? We have half circle ones. The other way is that its possible to create plines with some form of pattern, search for "insulation". Plines support bulges with is curves.