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A co-worker showed me this trick. Select a batch of text objects that you want to turn into mtext. Important: unselect them by pressing Esc. Pull up the text2mtext command from the Express menu. You'll get a prompt that includes the SEttings option; type SE. Uncheck the box for "Combine into a singl...
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3D polyline Vector Z value to 2D polyline elevation...
scremin posted a topic in AutoLISP, Visual LISP & DCL
Hello everyone, I am quite new here in this forum and I was expecting some help. Recently I've been working with water distribution models and I just faced a wasting time problem when working with elevation data. People in my office have to look for every elevation data in the topografic dwg...- 12 replies
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I need to convert a xml file into a .ply format. I started with a catproduct and I want to project that catproduct using a Virtek laser. In order to do so, I need a .ply and .cal files. How can I do that?
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Anyone has a code to accomplish this? I am dealing with bunch of poorly converted lines from PDF that used to be AutoCAD text in the drawing. Greatly appreciated!
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Update to "Convert Wipeout to Polyline Region"?
lutzow10 posted a topic in AutoLISP, Visual LISP & DCL
(Here is a link to the original post I am referencing) Hi Guys, I found this awesome lisp by Renderman/Black Box and I have run it a few times and it worked great those times. Then I tried to run it to convert maybe 20 wipeouts at once and a bunch of them disappeared. I would really like to... -
I have been trying to figure this out for a couple of days now. The only thing I could find is this LISP that takes the Ellipse properties and uses them to creat an arc. When I use this, the start and end angles are not correct in the drawing. Ellipses must have been drawn in a different UCS)....
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We have a new client who has a disaster of plans, some of them .dwg and some of them this odd .pad file format. For the life of me I cannot find anything on this file type nor can I convert it to dwg which is what I need to complete this leg of work. Can someone pleas chime in and assist me on getti...
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Convert spline to line
gegenytibor posted a topic in AutoCAD 2D Drafting, Object Properties & Interface
Dear All, Do you have any idea how can I convert this type of spline to a "normal" line? I think I get it from Inventor or Mechanical... I cant explode or extend, or add chamfer. Totaly useless! Please help if you can! Thank You! T line.dwg- 3 replies
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i am new to all of this. would love to be able to remove all or most vertex's for any and all of my artwork. as for now i need to remove them from a circle. i do not know what the codes are for or how to use them. any help, would help.. i hopesecond sign Y.dxf second sign W.dxf
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I have a number of large files that have multiple layers with many simple objects. I wish to have a LISP program that searches the file and for certain layers, it looks for line and arcs that have the same start or end points I.E. a line has one end point that matches an arc or another line start p...
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Convert a simple table (exploded) to a real table.
CafeJr posted a topic in AutoLISP, Visual LISP & DCL
Hi guys, I wanna know if someone has a Lisp code to convert a simple table to a real table. The drawing shows a simgle table made by lines and texts. Thanks in Advance. -
Hi all, was just wondering how to convert a bunch of lines into one continuous polyline?
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Hi all, I've been put in charge of a project to convert roughly 1000 microstation files to autocad. I've googled, but nothing exactly fits the bill. I can put together a lisp routine to do the heavy lifting, but I'm SURE there will be hiccups along the way. The microstation files are circa 2006,...
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Hey guys, I am in the process of updating our CAD Block Library and I have a collection of .IPT files which I would like to convert to .DWG. I am aware of the IMPORT command, and I am also aware that I can open the .IPT files in Inventor Fusion and save them to DWG from there... but I am goi...
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hi i am cleaning up a lot of old drawings each having multiple xrefs. however all are being moved to the current xref folder on the server so the xref path is messed up. we currently utilise a 'no path' xref setting on all drawings but these older ones all have saved paths. anyone know of a quicker...
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AutoCAD 2007 crashes when I try to convert to PDF
Danarchi posted a topic in AutoCAD Bugs, Error Messages & Quirks
Hello! I am new here and here's my first question: After not using AutoCAD for 4-5 months, I don't know what happened, but now when I tried to convert my DWG to PDF (that I've done successfully a million times in the past) it crashes and the program shuts down. I 've tried doing it both ways: plot.... -
Hi, I have an urgent problem that I'd be really grateful for some help with. I've built a model in AutoCAD 2013 - which is the software Ihave available - and I need to export it to SketchUp in order to transfer itfurther to yet another program. But I get stuck on just getting it saved in an old...
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Hi, I am trying to convert a dwg to eps format for use with Adobe Illustrator. I've tried exporting as eps and using conversion software but the output is incomplete and of poor quality with both these options. Does anyone know how I can get a like for like output.? Thanks Al
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How to read hexadecimal ( binary) data from registry
Ahankhah posted a topic in AutoLISP, Visual LISP & DCL
Hi All, as most of you know, (vl-registry-read) is a good function to get data out of windows registry. It works nice for string and decimal number data, but not works correct for hexadecimal (or binary) data. For example, if you issue this: (vl-registry-read "[b]HKEY_CURRENT_USER\...- 6 replies
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Hello, I’m a draftsman and I have a calculator that has feet and inches which of course makes things easy assisting in draft. I was wondering for those who do not have such calculator – I was considering creating a simple iphone app that does just that – add/substruct as well as conversion...
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Converting a Macro to a script
Movieangel posted a topic in The CUI, Hatches, Linetypes, Scripts & Macros
I know this is probably a super easy fix, but I just don't know how to do it. I have a macro that works great in my toolbar and/or ribbon, but I want to make it a script so that I can put it in a program such as Multi-batch and use it on several drawings at one time. How do I convert a macro to a sc... -
Hi I created a 3D math surface using 3DPLOT. However my outcome is a polyface mesh and I need to convert it to a solid. I have already tried the "Convert to Solid" & "Convert to Surface" options in the Mesh tab but I get "Mesh not converted because it is not closed or it self-intersects." I also tri...
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Hey there. I have a question regarding Revit Architecture 2012. (I'm a noob using it). I'm working on a job that requires me to model buildings in Revit, but then export them back into a standard DWG. The problem is, I need these newly converted files to be editable as if they were drawn...
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Converting CAD Files to PDF with proper Lineweights
landgroup posted a topic in AutoCAD Drawing Management & Output
I'm having problems plotting to PDF's and maintaining the line weights etc.. that I get when I print to my plotter. It seems like Adobe Acrobat Pro 9 converts based on the color of my pens.... the lighter color value i.e. yellow, the lighter the grey tone. white is darkest. It ignores my lineweig...- 3 replies
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Hi everyone, I want to change a helix to a 2d object as shown in current view (the current view isn't necessarily plan view or front view, etc.) Any suggestions is greatly appreciated