Book description
Customize and personalize programs built on the AutoCAD platformAutoLISP is the key to unlocking the secrets of a more streamlined experience using industry leading software programs like AutoCAD, Civil 3D, Plant 3D, and more.
AutoCAD Platform Customization: AutoLISP provides real-world examples that show you how to do everything from modifying graphical objects and reading and setting system variables to communicating with external programs. It also features a resources appendix and downloadable datasets and customization examples—tools that ensure swift and easy adoption.
- Find out how to remove unused buttons from the ribbon to gain screen space
- Discover how to create macros for frequently performed actions, or add your company's logo to the bottom of every drawing
- Learn to perform more involved customizations, like communicating with a database to validate and update information entered in drawing layers
- Ideal for CAD administrators, senior drafters, savvy users, and other professionals and students
Through detailed discussions and tutorials that include real-world examples, this book gives you the power to enhance your program's experience and output.
Table of contents
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Publisher's Note
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Quick Start for New AutoLISP Programmers
- Chapter 2: Understanding AutoLISP
- Chapter 3: Calculating and Working with Values
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Chapter 4: Working with Lists
- What Are Lists?
- Creating a List
- Getting an Element from a List
- Appending, Substituting, and Removing Elements
- Determining Whether an Item Exists in a List
- Sorting the Elements of a List
- Using Point Lists to Calculate Geometric Values
- Converting Lists to Strings and Strings to Lists
- Exercise: Adding Holes to the Plate
- Chapter 5: Requesting Input and Using Conditional and Looping Expressions
- Chapter 6: Creating and Modifying Graphical Objects
- Chapter 7: Creating and Modifying Nongraphical Objects
- Chapter 8: Working with the Operating System and External Files
- Chapter 9: Catching and Handling Errors
- Chapter 10: Authoring, Managing, and Loading AutoLISP Programs
- Chapter 11: Using the Visual LISP Editor (Windows only)
- Chapter 12: Working with ActiveX/COM Libraries (Windows only)
- Chapter 13: Implementing Dialog Boxes (Windows only)
- End User License Agreement
Product information
- Title: AutoCAD Platform Customization
- Author(s):
- Release date: October 2015
- Publisher(s): Sybex
- ISBN: 9781118798812
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