Help needed with lisp or a macro

[paulkillick7643]

Hi All

I cave created a new drop down menu using the Customize User Interface in AutoCad 2011 called Load Aerial Photography with a sub menu called Insert Tiles.

When selecting my new menu I would like to have a lisp / macro that browses to where our JPEG Aerial Photos are kept on out network.

At the moment I have to select the AutoCad pull down:-

Insert, Raster Image Referance then browse to M:\DATA\AERIAL_PHOTOS\2012\84235\RGB_10cm_1km_Jpeg_Tiles

If there is a user on this Forum who can build a lisp / Macro that will browse to the above filepath I would be very grateful as I'm really getting nowhere with this.

Thanks

Paul

[dmfrazier]

FYI (for future reference), there is a specific forum for this type of question:

http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/AutoCAD-Customization/ct-p/AutoCADTopic1

However, this sounds like a job for Design Center.

There is a fairly simple way to open Design Center to a specific folder.  You could place this line of code in a button macro (modify the path as necessary):

(command "._adcnavigate" "M:\DATA\AERIAL_PHOTOS\2012\84235\RGB_10cm_1km_Jpeg_Tiles")

If the contents of the folder are static, a Tool Palette might work, too.

Edit:

P.S. You will have to replace backslashes (\) with foreslashes (/) in any paths.

[Charles_Shade]

Nice.

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@dmfrazier wrote:

Edit:

P.S. You will have to replace backslashes (\) with foreslashes (/) in any paths.

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Does not the quotes in the Macro preclude the need to change the slashes?

[dmfrazier]

Try it both ways... Then you tell me!

(Thanks for the kudos.)

[Charles_Shade]

Man; you're gonna make me learn to fish?

[dmfrazier]

You didn't get that "expert elite" by taking hand-outs, did you?

I save the give-aways for the truly needy.

[Charles_Shade]

I've stuck to foreslashes and no quotes. Makes the Macro cleaner and easier to read.

[dmfrazier]

"foreslashes and no quotes"

The macro I posted was LISP code, so the quotes are necessary. The foreslashes can also be double backslashes.

[paulkillick7643]

Thanks, with the slashes going forward we have a result, a little tweaking and all should be fine.

[Charles_Shade]

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@dmfrazier wrote:

"foreslashes and no quotes"

The macro I posted was LISP code, so the quotes are necessary. The foreslashes can also be double backslashes.

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See now that I did not know.

I'm an LT user and do not have experience with Lisp. Is there something here that makes this Lisp code and not a Macro as was stated? To my ignorant eye it looks like a button Macro.

[paulkillick7643]

I'm using AutoCad 2011 and in the Customize User Interface Properties box under command the description is Macro

[dmfrazier]

"I'm an LT user and do not have experience with Lisp."

Yes, I sensed that.

"Is there something here that makes this Lisp code and not a Macro as was stated? To my ignorant eye it looks like a button Macro."

What makes it LISP code is the fact it is enclosed in parentheses.  If you tried to run (in LT) the code I posted, you'd get an error.  Non-LT AutoCAD interprets anything inside parentheses as LISP.  This particular line of LISP code is very similar to what you think of as "macro" syntax, but LISP uses different conventions.  In a sense, LISP is just another "macro" language.

It's only a "button macro" if you use it to define a toolbar button.  This code can also be run at the command line, or it could be defined as a named function and run within a larger LISP routine, or loaded and run as a "command".

[paulkillick7643]

I'm not to sure myself but seems to work fine, as you can see from the attached where the Macro field is highlighted blue you can see the command.