concentric circles automated ??

[steve]

I design irrigation systems ( amongst a whole bunch of other things ) using AutoCAD LT 2014, an dI find I need to draw lots of concentric circles, I have two screen  and read a figure on one screen and set the radius of that circle I need on AutoCAD on the other screen. So, my question is;

Is there a way to automatically have Autocad read a table in excel and draw the concentric circles at a given point, using the radii in the excel worksheet?

Thank you in advance to any and all help recieved 🙂

[braudpat · Accepted solution]

Hello

A quick answer !

You could use Script files generated from Excel and edited with the notepad ... to get things like that :

_CIRCLE 1000,1500 50

_CIRCLE 1000,1500 70

_CIRCLE 1000,1500 100

_CIRCLE 1000,1500 150

This .SCR file (of 4 lines) will draw 4 circles with different radius : 50, 70, 100, 150

[pendean · Accepted solution]

... or as a macro of the above tip you can add to the CUI and turn it into a button (remember to change the diameters to suit your needs, we both are just guessing):
^C^C_CIRCLE 1000,1500 50;_CIRCLE 1000,1500 70;_CIRCLE 1000,1500 100;_CIRCLE 1000,1500 150

[steve]

Thank you very much to both Braudpat and Pendean for your replies.  they have helped me in a very big way and will speed up my designing no end:)