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Could you use WBLOCK instead of COPYCLIP or COPYBASE, to send a selection out as a drawing directly, rather than by way of the Clipboard?
Kent Cooper, AIA 
@GeryKnee wrote:
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Using -insert i have the ability to scale a block but, in order to do this you have to refere to a block.
So the clipboard data have to be stored to a file in a supported path to use the file name.
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The Insert command can also Insert an external drawing file [i.e. you don't have to refer to a Block already defined in the drawing]. It becomes a Block definition in the drawing in which it is Inserted. The Wblock command will make that external drawing file with a selection of objects. Rather than selecting them and using Ctrl-C to copy them to the Clipboard, and then making them into a drawing from there, use Wblock instead to make them into a drawing directly, without the Clipboard as a middle-man. You can then Insert that drawing [with an Insert command instead of the PasteBlock command that Ctrl-Shift-V does], including scaling and all other Insert choices, into any other drawing.
It will ask for an insertion point, so it's like the Copybase command [Ctrl-Shift-C] rather than Copyclip [Ctrl-C]. And it will ask for a drawing name, but you could use something temporary, dedicated to this usage. For example, if you have a routine that does it using a name such as "Transfer", you can name it differently as a Block in another drawing [your Drawing B] by using the Insert command with the "Blockname=Filename" usage, e.g. Insert "TrashCan=Transfer" and you'll end up with a Block in Drawing B called "TrashCan" which contains the things you selected in Drawing A and Wblocked out of it.
If you do it with Wblock in a (command) function rather than using the dialog box, it will always remove the selected objects from the current drawing [that's an option in the dialog box]. But you can bring them back immediately with the Oops command, to have an end result more like Copyclip which leaves them in the drawing.
Kent Cooper, AIA
@GeryKnee wrote:
In a drawing A.dwg i copy to clipboard some objects (CTRL+C)
I need to insert the clipboard data to another B.dwg, but i need to scale the block of them
Using Ctrl+V or Ctrl+Alt+V the Clipboard Data are inserting without the ability to scale them
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I need a lisp code that exports the clipboard data to a dwg file but i don't how to do it and if it's possible to do.
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Something like this perhaps.
(defun c:cb (/ pt ss);; to copy to clipboard (if (and (princ "\nSelect entities to copy with base point: ") (setq ss (ssget)) (setq pt (getpoint "\nSpecify base point: ")) ) (command "_.copybase" pt ss "") ) (princ) ) (defun c:pb (/ l l1);; to paste as block, scale and explode (command "_.pasteblock" pause) (command "_.scale" "_L" "" (getvar 'LASTPOINT)) (while (> (getvar 'cmdactive) 0) (command pause) ) (command "_.explode" "_L") (princ) )
Hope that helps
Henrique
@GeryKnee wrote:
Thanks Kent for your care
The problem is that using -Wblock to select the objects , you are asked you to give the export file name via dialog ....
Not when you're in an AutoLISP (command) function, in which Command:-line operation is the default, without the dialog box -- you need to specifically ask for it with (initdia) beforehand if you want it. The following works for me [in 2015 -- I'll try later in an older version to see whether the syntax might be any different], to make a drawing with the current drawing's 0,0,0 location as its insertion point, containing the last-drawn entity in the current drawing:
(command "_.wblock" "c:/temp/transfer.dwg" "_yes" "" '(0 0 0) "_last" "" "_oops")
You would substitute whatever you want as an insertion point in place of '(0 0 0), and a selection set in place of "_last", which you can get similarly to those parts of hmsilva's suggestion.
The "_yes" is there in case you've used this before, to overwrite the previous transfer drawing. It won't care if it doesn't exist yet -- a message will go by that it can't find a Block by that name [assuming you don't have one], but it will carry on. Alternatively, you could make it check first whether there's such a drawing already, and if so, delete it so Wblock won't ask whether you want to replace it.
Kent Cooper, AIA
You're welcome, Gery.
Sorry, but I don't know where the scale last value is stored, so, to force the default scale value to one, perhaps something like this.
Quick and dirty...
(defun c:pb (/ l l1);; to paste as block, scale and explode
(command "_.pasteblock" pause
"_.scale" "_L" "" (getvar 'LASTPOINT) 1
"_.scale" "_L" "" (getvar 'LASTPOINT))
(while (> (getvar 'cmdactive) 0)
(command pause)
)
(command "_.explode" "_L")
(princ)
)
Henrique
@GeryKnee wrote:
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I need to insert the clipboard data to another B.dwg, but i need to scale the block of them
Using Ctrl+V or Ctrl+Alt+V the Clipboard Data are inserting without the ability to scale them (as Autocad R14 were doing)
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Are you sure about that? You don't say what version you are using, but in my 2015 at least, you definitely can scale what you paste in with Ctrl+V and Ctrl+Shift[notAlt]+V. When it asks for an insertion point, type S and it will ask for a scale. It doesn't offer the option in the prompt, but the option is there. When I Ctrl+C some things out of one drawing, and in another hit Ctrl+Shift+V, I get:
Command: _pasteblock Specify insertion point: S
Specify scale factor for XYZ axes <1>:
And similarly with Ctrl+V, coming in not as a Block but separately -- no need to bring them in as a Block and Explode it.
Kent Cooper, AIA
@Kent1Cooper wrote:
... but in my 2015 at least, you definitely can scale what you paste in with Ctrl+V and Ctrl+Shift[notAlt]+V. When it asks for an insertion point, type S and it will ask for a scale. It doesn't offer the option in the prompt, but the option is there. When I Ctrl+C some things out of one drawing, and in another hit Ctrl+Shift+V, I get:
Command: _pasteblock Specify insertion point: S
Specify scale factor for XYZ axes <1>:
And similarly with Ctrl+V, coming in not as a Block but separately -- no need to bring them in as a Block and Explode it.
In 2010 works ok with the option S...
I didn't know that option for scale existed in pasteclip/pasteblock command.
Thank you Kent.
Henrique
GeryKnee wrote:Sould the Scale be different in the two directions X, Y (Scale X and Scale Y)
What is the lisp code in that case?
Something like this, perhaps...
(defun c:pb (/ h obj v);; to paste as block, scale and explode
(vl-load-com)
(command "_.pasteblock" pause)
(setq obj (vlax-ename->vla-object (entlast)))
(initget 6)
(setq h (getreal "\nEnter Horizontal Scale <1.00>: "))
(if (not h)
(setq h 1.00)
)
(initget 6)
(setq v (getreal (strcat "\nEnter Vertical Scale <" (rtos h 2 2) ">: ")))
(if (not v)
(setq v h)
)
(vla-put-xscalefactor obj h)
(vla-put-yscalefactor obj v)
(command "_.explode" "_L")
(princ)
)
HTH
Henrique
@GeryKnee wrote:
This code does not get the scaleX and Scale Y using the Screen plus entering the rael values (by Keyboard) as it was working good in the previous code (useing the simple variable scale).
Meyby a change to code will make it working as the previous (entering the scale variable graphically as distance of LASTPOINT and User defined for both X and Y direction.
The LASTPOINT must be the block insertion point for both X and Y direction.
I hope it's possible for you to change the code.
I'm waiting your reply.
Regards,
Gery
The previous code use the SCALE command to scale the pasted entities, and only allows to scale uniformly, as you have asked to be able to to scale with different x y values, the above code allows to enter different x y values and the base point will be the block insertion point for the x and y scale...
To change the x/y scales dynamically would require much more code lines and and more free time for writing it, and free time is what I don't have right now...
Henrique
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