Wonderful world of .lsps

Hello

just recently, in like the last two years I have stumbled upon the wonderful world of lisps (never needed 'em before but once you use a few you're hooked) by just useing some that others (mostely in one or another of these Autocad forums) have generated.

Is there some kind of tutorial or a resource site of some sort that teaches you all the proper syntax or whatever for a .lsp so that I can more easily generate my own when the need arises for one?

thanks

 

You almost have to take a class at a community college to really get it.

 

The customization help files really do contain a wealth of information.
As well as 99% of the function syntax requirements.

You should be able to get your mitts on a hardcopy of the customization
manual without too much trouble - I think you can still order one from
Autodesk - so you can access the info away from the 'puter, when you have
the desire/need.

As for the example code provided therein - well, IMO these discussion groups
shall always take precedence over that.

Some other nice references to be on the look-out for:

Maximizing AutoCAD R13 by Gesner/Middlebrook/Tanzillo (Autodesk Press) -
Obviously doesn't contain the newest functions and programming tricks, but a
fine, fine, overall customization reference.

Essential AutoLISP by Roy Harkow (Springer-Verlag) - Again written ~R12,R13
era, but still a helpful code reference.

Code Complete by Steve McConnell (Microsoft Press) - Not an AutoLISP
reference, per se, but provides some very helpful guidelines and rules of
thumb for designing your code. I wish I had read this book about 15 years
ago. Would've saved me quite a bit of headaches over the years.

I believe Tony Tanzillo also co-authored another (earlier) book Maximizing
AutoLISP for R12(?), but I'm not sure. I've heard good things about it, but
alas, this one seems to be a rare find, and since I do not have it in my
collection, I can say little more about it.

hth,
David Kozina

wonderful world of lisps (never needed 'em before but once you use a few
you're hooked) by just useing some that others (mostely in one or another of
these Autocad forums) have generated.

teaches you all the proper syntax or whatever for a .lsp so that I can more
easily generate my own when the need arises for one?

 

http://www.afralisp.com/tutor.htm

Nice & easy to follow.

Steve

wonderful world of lisps (never needed 'em before but once you use a few
you're hooked) by just useing some that others (mostely in one or another of
these Autocad forums) have generated.

teaches you all the proper syntax or whatever for a .lsp so that I can more
easily generate my own when the need arises for one?

 

Thanks... I'll definately have to take a look at that

dont know any kind of programming at the moment but if I have need for something I'm a quick learner.

 

From one who learned on my own starting 15+ years ago......

See if you have a local AutoCAD User group in your area, and attend
meetings.
I just started a LISP tutorial for the Greater Chicago AutoCAD User
Group that meets once a month.
Also the training class is posted on the GCAUG website and on my
website.

Search the internet for AutoLISP tutorials, I found
http://www.autocadcentral.com/Tutorials/tutorials_index.htm
http://www.caddigest.com/subjects/autocad/tutorials/select/index.htm
http://www.btlsp2000.com/
http://acadsolutions.biz (my website)

Read through some of the thousands of examples in this newsgroup.
Even after all the years of programming, I learn something almost
everytime I visit this newsgroup.
Unfortunately, I have become seriously addicted to this newsgroup (plus
cadmanager and VBA).

I hope you learning goes well, AutoLISP is extremely useful tool and is
stimulating for the mind.

Alan Henderson

 

<< dont know any kind of programming at the moment >>

Don't let that stop you. Autolisp is actually the best entry level language because it's executed inside an interpeter. That makes it hard to really do any damage to the base programming.
Also is easiest to learn.

Bill

 

I dont believe they have users groups around here actually... dont think I looked real hard but when I did try to find one I couldt though. Ya have to understand Im not in America so sometimes were still a little bit back wards around here ;-)

 

yup thats a pretty good one. lisps now seem to be the same or similar difficulty as learning HTML in notepad and I learned the basics of that off of tutorials on the web so this should hopefully be almost as easy. Though I doubt there are quite as many resources of lisps as there are htm but thanks for the good start

 

See http://www.btlsp2000.com/page20.html

 

none of the images work on that site for some reason