VS Code AutoCAD Lisp Snippets

[CivilTechSource]

Hi All, just wanted to thank everyone again for helping me so far in my lisp journey! As a token, I worked on a VS Code extension for AutoCAD snippets. This so it can allow users to type in quickly common functions the use all the time (e.g. search layer if dont exist create layer and so on). So far I have added the comment section.

Happy to receive feedback and suggestions. Thank you

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=CivilTechSource.autocad-lisp-snippets

[BIGAL]

@CivilTechSource Like you, It is a good idea to have a library of functions that you use all the time, in my Excel lisp there are 41 defuns so just copy and paste the ones I want to use, same with my Multi lisps for dcl's. often set them to write a dcl and then convert that file to dcl lisp code, like 3 lines of code to make a dcl. I have a VLAX lsp open all the time in my Notepad++ so again copy paste a function. I have a lot of lisp's saved as a function name eg Sort.lsp has various sort methods in it. 

 

 

I use windows "Findstr" a lot in a bat file so can look through an entire lisp directory for a keyword, identifies lisp files with that key word and copy and paste what I want out of existing code.

 

You can in a lisp load an entire other lisp program and continue and use functions in that new lisp, I mention it as you could have little tiny lisp's like your "make layer.lsp" and just load when required. eg (if (not ah:butts)(load "Multi radio Buttons.lsp")) so you could have a few load lisp's at start of code saving lots of copying and pasting.

 

Interested what others do.

 

Edited 1 hour ago by BIGAL