How to set Annotation Scale via LISP?

[Anonymous]

I'm trying to figure out how to create a function to set the annotation scale and so far no luck. Does anyone know why this isn't working?

(Defun c:HLGCSCALE48 ( / )
(setvar cannoscale "1/4\" = 1'-0")
(princ)
)

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

[dgorsman]

Is it expecting the second number to be 1'-0, or 1'-0"? You may need to escape a second double-quote in there.

[drudder]

Autodesk refuses to admit this is a bug and they even refer to it as a "wish list" item... I have managed a programmatical fix... The fix is VBA and the code is located in the following thread:




Thread #630218

[krispy]

as dgorsman said, you escaped the first double quote, but not the second

[masscis]

I know this is old but I was looking for an answer to this question as well. After playing around with the code listed above, varible must be in quotes. Also, the varible is expecting feet and inches but " means end of input. OP missed a \" after 1'-0. It should look like this:

(setvar "cannoscale" "1/4\" = 1'-0\"")

[nwbos]

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