topic Re: Macro For Plotting in Visual LISP, AutoLISP and General Customization Forum

Macro For Plotting

Anonymous — Sat, 10 Sep 2016 12:58:58 GMT

I am trying to create a macro to plot to a file, but can't get the macro to pull up a browse window instead of requiring a specific file name. I could do it if it needed a file location, but file name is too specific to make this macro useful. Is there a way to have the macro open the "browse for location" window at that point in the macro?

Re: Macro For Plotting

dennis — Fri, 16 Sep 2016 18:17:37 GMT

If you are working up your macro as an AutoLISP routine, you would need to get a DCL dialog box associated to the lisp routine. I find DCLs a bit clunky to work with, and they end up usually looking nothing like the windows interface. So, I would recommend looking into at least VBA or best at .NET for dialogs that then will become so much easier and consistent looking to the windows environment. At the 'beginning of VBA' when it was introduced in AutoCAD, I often just made the dialog form, and then assigned my lisp routines to the buttons.

Re: Macro For Plotting

Anonymous — Fri, 16 Sep 2016 18:42:32 GMT

To assign a filename inside AutoLisp:

(setq filename (getfiled "Select WHizard Graphics File" "c:/" "dwg" 2))

Re: Macro For Plotting

SeeMSixty7 — Fri, 16 Sep 2016 18:51:31 GMT

Another option to consider is OpenDCL. It offers a lot of expanded dialog functionality.

Re: Macro For Plotting

Anonymous — Sat, 17 Sep 2016 15:19:01 GMT

We are using AutoCAD LT, so we don't have the option to use a lisp routine. Is there a way to get it to work using a macro or a script?

Re: Macro For Plotting

hmsilva — Tue, 20 Sep 2016 17:31:15 GMT

Hi Chris
try to add a "~" in the macro to open the dialog box.
Untested.

Henrique

Re: Macro For Plotting

Anonymous — Tue, 20 Sep 2016 19:23:26 GMT

That's it. Perfect. Now we can macro all of our plotting! Thanks a ton!

Re: Macro For Plotting

hmsilva — Tue, 20 Sep 2016 19:27:14 GMT

You're welcome,
Glad I could help

Henrique