I had created these headers in my General Symbols program on another thread as blocks. One of the drawbacks of doing it that way is that you still need to position your text for the notes. I created another program that will make the same headers as individual entities and place the first string of text for the notes into position. If you need additional notes you simply copy the first one down in ortho mode. The program calculates all of the text and line points. Give it a try.
Please see attached.
Thanks,
Buzzard
The latest revision of Drawing Notes and Legend is attached below.
1. Fixed echo problem with circle and polygon commands.
2. Replaced slide_image with vector_image, Eliminated previous slides.
3. Added Drawing Scale Pop-Up menu. You can now scale your notes to the drawing scale.
Buzzard,
You definitely have a nice style. I look forward to testing out your Drawing Notes and Legend Lisp functions tomorrow at work.
Regards,
Bennett
Thanks Bennett,
Long time no hear, Its not really a fancy program, But it will provide a way to deal with notes. Sort of better than nothing. When you think about it, Everything we need to do in CAD manually always seems like work no matter how small it may be. Small programs like this help absorb some of the stress dealing with this stuff.
As you can see, It can be modified easy to suit your own needs with regard to style. Even the new programmers can figure this program out I would think.
Thanks Again and Enjoy,
Good to hear from you.
Buzzard
Hey Buzzard,
Really neat program! I just tried it out. You know what might be nice, but probably a lot of code, is to have your program only be a lsp and dcl file. I've seen an example somewhere where the program draws the images of the blocks you are about to insert into to image frames of the dialog. That way your lsp program would not only have control over the blocks it inserts, but also creating the images in the dialog image frames. I'm sure it can be done some how.
Zeanor
I would like to try something like that, But not sure where to start. Who knows, Maybe someone at this forum would have an answer.
Anyway, this is my favorite type of programming creating objects. The majority of what we do in CAD is create objects, Sometimes over and over again or we make them once and put them someplace only to wait for a day to use them. Then we have to remember where they are or what we called them. Then the time to leave the drawing editor just to get them. A program such as this is as ready as choosing your option and hit OK.
Buzzard,
I just tested you new revised version of DNL. Sweet!
I think what Zeanor is referring to, has something to do with the Wmfout and Wmfin commands used in a function that figures out how to draw the image in an image-tile instead of showing a slide. The vector_image command has something to do with it also.
Thanks QS,
I might have another version coming out soon. If you saw some of the previous posts, I figured out how to do the images from within the program using vector_image. Be sure to look for it. I will have some more new threads as well for some new programs that will be loaded with good stuff for various types of disiplines.
I am so busy!
The Buzzard
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Please see the first post for the revised copy. There was an echo problem that has been fixed. Thank You.
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