Dialog Control Language UDLWe had a DLL AutoCAD command that we lost the code to quite some time ago and wanted to “update” its functionality. We could have done this through lisp quite easily, but there was one complex dialog associated with it. I’ve always hated the Dialog Control Language in AutoCAD, but it certainly […]
Sorry to go fairly dark for a while, but I think Andy said it best. “Being asked to accomplish seemingly impossible goals on a regular basis is just what we do, but these days it feels more like trying to rewrite the first 3 laws of physics”. I am sure that isn’t an exact quote, […]
If you are an avid keyboard user like me, then you probably share my contempt for the developers choice of mandating a dialog prompt for text entry on Plant 3D IsoMessages. I know it was a constant irritation of mine years ago when I was first using P3D. Especially since there were so many logical […]
More often that not I am usually trying to get data out of AutoCAD. However, over the years I have made lots of lisp routines that enhance or modify existing tables created by a piping software and in truth I’ve even lazily used the DATAEXTRACTION command as part of a manual 2D isometric programs BOM. […]
Hello again, as you know I have been playing with PDF API’s quite a bit lately and came upon a situation where I needed to make a ton of small PDF binders. I was able to grab and organize all of the files into individual folders using lisp quite efficiently, but ultimately I didn’t have […]
This post isn’t actually BIM software related, but it is something all of us BIM people have to deal with on a regular basis. In this post I will be doing a product review on XFinium PDF toolkit, providing a working example of how to work with their demo version and talking about the Engineer/Designer […]
Wrappers have always been something of a magical thing to me. It is the process of taking something programmatically impractical or just plain out of reach and making it more accessible. This would usually be a bullet proof and complete encapsulation of the thing being wrapped that hides anything they chose not to support. Well, […]
