Named UCS and PLAN all in one LISP not working

[skipsophrenic]

I'll give it a try in a bit - got not much time to at moment - bit of a rush job on - AAARRGH! LOL

[Lee Mac]

Hahah, let me know the results once the rush job has finished!

 

Don't let the boss catch you on here! He'll only think its an angling site

[skipsophrenic]

thanks for the help Lee, that's done the trick

 

I'm off to start a new lisp now (not too complicated i hope)

 

Want me to include you in the title header?

[Lee Mac]

Excellent! Glad it works like you want it to

 

As for the title header.... only include me if I have helped you with it... credit where credit's due and all

 

Shall we see if the code can have more lines than the header this time

[skipsophrenic]

Shall we see if the code can have more lines than the header this time

 

for the next 0ne I hope so! LOL

 

For the one pertaining to this thread - headder for your approval?

Any changes/suggestions?

;** THIS ROUTINE IS FOR RESTORING 
;** A SAVED UCS AND RUNNING THE 
;** PLAN COMMAND AT THE SAME TIME 
;** ALSO GOES TO A USER CHOSEN LAYOUT 
;** AND STARTS VIEWPORT COMMAND 
;** 
;** 
;** COPYRIGHT (C) PETER SMITH & LEE MAC 
;** 
;** 
;** ORIGINAL CONCEPT/PROGRAMMING BY PETER SMITH 
;** PROGRAMMING/DE-BUGGING BY LEE MAC 
;** 
;** PROVIDED FOR USE BY ALL PLEASE 
;** INCLUDE THIS HEADER WHEN COPYING 
;** 
;** CONTACT TO REPORT PROBLEMS: [email="skipsophrenic@hotmail.com"]skipsophrenic@hotmail.com[/email]

[Lee Mac]

Haha, I really don't mind too much ~ but thanks for the mention

[skipsophrenic]

No probs

[GE13579]

I'm looking at something along these lines, but am wondering if it can be added to a toolbar button? What I'm aiming for is a button which prompts the commands UCS- RE, asks for a name, then continues with PLAN- CURRENT UCS. Is this possible to create in a button, or does it need to be in a LISP form?

 

Also just to clarify a couple of points earlier in this thread;

 

NA is a step which can be bypassed in 2009- not sure about 2008, but you can use either command sequence,

 

Command: ucs

Current ucs name: SF04

Specify origin of UCS or [Face/NAmed/OBject/Previous/View/World/X/Y/Z/ZAxis]

: na

Enter an option [Restore/Save/Delete/?]: re

Enter name of UCS to restore or [?]:

 

Command: ucs

Current ucs name: SF04

Specify origin of UCS or [Face/NAmed/OBject/Previous/View/World/X/Y/Z/ZAxis]

: re

Enter name of UCS to restore or [?]:

 

You can even drop the 'e' from 're':

 

Command: ucs

Current ucs name: SF04

Specify origin of UCS or [Face/NAmed/OBject/Previous/View/World/X/Y/Z/ZAxis]

: r

Enter name of UCS to restore or [?]:

 

Also, VPORTS is a command for MS viewports, ie it will break up the model space into x number of view ports, it's different to the MVIEW command.

 

Thanks in advance for any help with this. I must admit LISP and macros aren't my strongest point so please bear with me...

 

And thanks to all who have contributed to this thread as I might well be utilising Skips'/ LeeMacs LISP routine if the macro option isn't possible...

[alanjt]

I'm looking at something along these lines, but am wondering if it can be added to a toolbar button? What I'm aiming for is a button which prompts the commands UCS- RE, asks for a name, then continues with PLAN- CURRENT UCS. Is this possible to create in a button, or does it need to be in a LISP form?

 

Also just to clarify a couple of points earlier in this thread;

 

NA is a step which can be bypassed in 2009- not sure about 2008, but you can use either command sequence,

 

 

 

 

 

You can even drop the 'e' from 're':

 

 

 

Also, VPORTS is a command for MS viewports, ie it will break up the model space into x number of view ports, it's different to the MVIEW command.

 

Thanks in advance for any help with this. I must admit LISP and macros aren't my strongest point so please bear with me...

 

And thanks to all who have contributed to this thread as I might well be utilising Skips'/ LeeMacs LISP routine if the macro option isn't possible...

 

It's possible to make it into a button (not sure why you would go that route when LISP is so much better), but it's possible. Just use a ";" to signify when a call is finished and a \ when you want to pause for user input.

^C^CUCS;re\

[GE13579]

Hi Alan,

 

Thank you for your reply. I've never used macros before to create a button, but just to clarify, (I'm also wondering why you didn't include the ';' between the '^C^C' and the UCS command- is this standard?) would the macro say for UCS, W, PLAN, CURRENT UCS look like-

 

^C^CUCS;W;PLAN;C

 

Could I also assign buttons for specific UCS' such as-

 

^C^CUCS;R;;PLAN;C

 

Then a general one with which I could name a UCS from-

 

^C^CUCS;R\PLAN;C

 

Can you confirm the above?

 

Cheers Alan!

[GE13579]

Just an update- the above works well thank you Alan! Sorry I've been calling you by the wrong name! Well... it's Monday...

 

Sorry about that!

 

The only notes are that I missed off the ';' at the end of each and I couldn't get the last one to work but happened upon the UCSMAN command which kind of covers that, just i need an additional button

[alanjt]

Just an update- the above works well thank you Alan! Sorry I've been calling you by the wrong name! Well... it's Monday...

 

Sorry about that!

 

The only notes are that I missed off the ';' at the end of each and I couldn't get the last one to work but happened upon the UCSMAN command which kind of covers that, just i need an additional button

 

 

No sweat.

I'm glad you got it worked out. I'm not much of a macro writer since I know how to write LISP, but I know enough to point someone in the right direction.