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Hello everyone,

After spending several years trying to run old programs developed by Alejandro Gutierrez, I gave up.

Alejandro was a genius and helped develop applications for AutoCAD in the 90s.

 

The many routines included in this hundred files were incredibly effective at the time, and the company in which I am now a partner, Alpentech Inc., was always ahead of everyone else thanks to the know-how of Alejandro and his creations.

To give you examples, one of these programs allows you to draw longitudinal and transverse profiles, edit them and calculate the cut/fill areas and volumes. Yes, on AutoCAD! For these calculations he used Surfer and Excel in particular.

 

But the most powerful program, called "Smartmap", made it possible to create a map of relevance of terrain choices, in particular for the creation of ski slopes, based on several parameters such as altitude, orientation, shadows, the wind...

For information, the programs were running on AutoCAD 2005 and the files contained in the folders are mainly: .lsp .dcl .arx .vbp .frm .exe .vlx 

 

Unfortunately, I am unable to use most of these programs, and lack the time and knowledge (especially) to manage to run them, or modify/adapt them to our needs today...

So if anyone is interested in deciphering these programs, possibly followed by clarification or even a presentation (given the number of routines...), do not hesitate to contact me by email at nicolas@ alpentech.net

 

Thank you for reading and have a nice day, Lispers!

Nicholas

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I'm moderately getting more proficient in using LISP for 2D applications and learning more about leveraging it in 3D applications, all in AutoCAD. I haven't dabbled in DCL file extensions but that's just for display. I attached something I did a few months ago for annotating blocks. Shoot me a message, it seems interesting what you have on there.

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Looking at files

.lsp yep can open text file

.dcl yep can open text file

.arx compiled program so can not look inside may need a recompile of source code to 2024, maybe a C# program

.frm an Excel form not sure

.vlx is a collection of files into 1 file and is compiled can not look inside

.exe compiled program so can not look inside may need a recompile of source code to match windows OS, 10 & 11, maybe a C# program

 

So if you have hundreds you need the source code for all of them. C#, lsp etc.

 

"one of these programs allows you to draw longitudinal and transverse profiles, edit them" have a look at, https://civilsitedesign.com.au/ the owner of csd started in the 80's so you can imagine how advanced it is now. Autocad, CIV3D or Bricscad.

 

 

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Thank you for your answers.

 

In reality, the folder includes more than 50 .LSP files and 1 .DCL file, 1 .ARX file and 1 .VLX file

 

In fact, I know how to code in lsp, but I don't know the rest, hence my subject. But thank you for the clarification of the file extensions.

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I might guess that some of the LISPs are quite simple, so in the compiled files it (which we can't look inside) it might be possible to recreate some as and when you need to update them.

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