Routines, Tools & Add-ons

This program serves as a foundation to create your own program for chart building with Visual LISP.

This program returns a list of attributes for an entity.

Many Visual LISP® purists do not want to use the ActiveX automation approach to controlling various AutoCAD® features. At the same time, those with ActiveX experience in other programming languages tend to think that the approach taken in Visual LISP is strange. But a true wizard of the technology knows that there are many ways to accomplish a desired task, while you must fully exploit all the provided tools to achieve the best forms of magic.

This Visual LISP utility contains a series of functions for manipulating dates, as in converting between Julian day format and Calendar format.

This AutoLISP® routine will speed the clean-up of entities that extend on either side of a straight line, such as you might find in a brick veneer in an elevation view.

The program XSHOW.LSP is for programmers who need to know the contents of extended data attached to objects in a drawing.

This tool provides a way to export a PCP file from a CTB plot style table.

This tool provides a way to export CTB and STB plot style tables to a comma delimited text file.

If your AutoCAD drawing files are stored in various folders, and you use Windows Explorer for file management often, you might find this routine useful.

The program CTEXT.LSP is a handy utility for changing text in a drawing.

Use this code snippet to count the parts in an assembly and identify which parts are local and which are external.