Automating Drawings in Autocad

Discussion in 'AutoCAD' started by Anonimo, Apr 14, 2004.

  1. Anonimo

    Anonimo Guest

    Does anybody know how to control x,y,z position and visibility of an
    object and/or block on autocad 2002 (or greater) from an external
    database (like access, csv, txt,...), this is becouse i want to
    automate the location of fire-extinguishers/alarms/wiring/... on lots
    (more than 175) of blue-prints of a building.
    Any comments?
    TIP: Using AutoLISP may require to learn a new programing language
    (witch may be really time consuming), and using the DBConnect I can't
    assign coordinates, only tags?
     
    Anonimo, Apr 14, 2004
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  2. Anonimo

    Anonimo Guest

    I've seen lisp files that take coords from a csv file (insblk.lsp).
    but the problem is that you have to do an appload for every drawing,
    is there a way to do a lisp program that works on several documents at
    a time?
     
    Anonimo, Apr 14, 2004
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  3. Anonimo

    Anonimo Guest

    How about automating using VBA?

    any feedback?
     
    Anonimo, Apr 16, 2004
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