Category Archives: AutoLISP

AutoLISP: Easily Make Isometric Text

Posted on April 23, 2012 by AutoCAD Tips

If you need to create isometric text  and you are tired of using so many different styles, today’s tip will be your new best friend. Note that this routine only works with DTEXT (single line text). Here’s how: ISOTEXT <enter> … Continue reading →

Posted in AutoLISP, AutoLISP: Creating, AutoLISP: Modify, AutoLISP: Text, Isometrics | 4 Comments

AutoLISP: Globally Change XREF Attachment Type

Posted on April 3, 2012 by AutoCAD Tips

If you need to Changeall of the way in which XREF’s are attached this routine is for you. This routine will change all XREFs in a drawing to either “Overlay” or “Attached.” Here’s How: X2A <enter> = All XREFs to … Continue reading →

Posted in AutoLISP, AutoLISP XREFs, AutoLISP: Modify, XREFs | 2 Comments

AutoLISP: External Contours of Objects

Posted on March 29, 2012 by AutoCAD Tips

This routine is helpful if you have overlapping objects that form a closed area and you would like to combine them into one overall closed object. This is like the UNION command but for 2D closed areas. Here’s how: ECO … Continue reading →

Posted in AutoLISP, AutoLISP: Creating, AutoLISP: Modify, AutoLISP: Polylines | 3 Comments

AutoLISP: Replace Selected Points with Block

Posted on March 27, 2012 by AutoCAD Tips

Today’s featured routine lets you replace selected points in a drawing with a defined block in the drawing. This routine could be more rubust but it is still helpful. It does let you specify the scale of the block and … Continue reading →

Posted in AutoLISP, AutoLISP: Blocks, AutoLISP: Creating, AutoLISP: Modify | 18 Comments

AutoLISP: Easily Create Isometric Blocks

Posted on March 21, 2012 by AutoCAD Tips

Here is a useful routine that will create isometric blocks based on an existing 2D (flat) block. This is great because all that you have to do is create the one block and this routine will do the rest for … Continue reading →

Posted in AutoLISP, AutoLISP: Creating, AutoLISP: Modify, Customization, Isometrics | 17 Comments

AutoLISP: 3D View – Section View with Depth

Posted on March 14, 2012 by AutoCAD Tips

Here is a handy routine that lets you easily define a view and define its view-depth. With cluttered 3D drawings, you may want to view objects from a side view but also not see the clutter behind and in front … Continue reading →

Posted in AutoLISP, AutoLISP: 3D | 3 Comments

Trim and Delete outside of closed polyline

Posted on March 14, 2012 by AutoCAD Tips

Here is a very helpful routine that I seemed to have forgotten about. It lets you select a closed polyline and it will trim and delete everything outside of it. Anything that crosses its edge will be trimmed on the … Continue reading →

Posted in AutoLISP, AutoLISP: Modify, AutoLISP: Polylines, Modifying | 9 Comments

AutoLISP: Covert DTEXT & MTEXT to Multileaders

Posted on March 12, 2012 by AutoCAD Tips

The previous routine only works with MTEXT objects. This routine, however, works with both MTEXT and DTEXT objects and even makes the process easier. Here’s how: MTLE <enter> to start Select the Text object(s) Specify where the end point (arrow) … Continue reading →

Posted in AutoLISP, AutoLISP: Modify, AutoLISP: Text, Leaders, Text | 9 Comments

Add Leader to Text – Make Multileader

Posted on March 12, 2012 by AutoCAD Tips

If you have existing MTEXT objects and would like to add a leader to it and make into a Multileader object, this LISP will be your friend. The text objects do need to be MTEXT objects for this routine to … Continue reading →

Posted in AutoLISP, AutoLISP: Text, Leaders, Text | 8 Comments

AutoLISP: Trim Objects on One Side

Posted on March 8, 2012 by AutoCAD Tips

This routine is similar to the Express Tool EXTRIM (is covered near the bottom of the linked post) in that you select a cutting edge and then what side of the cutting edge you would like to trim. But the difference is … Continue reading →

Posted in AutoLISP, AutoLISP: Modify | 1 Comment