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Lisp For Getting Length Info In Multiple Units

tim_crouse — Tue, 26 Nov 2024 16:30:13 GMT

I needed a lisp to retrieve object length info in multiple units.

Note this has been used and tested with units set to Architectural and Decimal

Best Regards

-Tim C.

Re: Lisp For Getting Length Info In Multiple Units

CodeDing — Tue, 26 Nov 2024 16:54:59 GMT

@tim_crouse ,

Nothing wrong with putting your lisp skills to work; It's good practice!

But for future reference, you can also use the (cvunit ...) function to save some heartache:

https://help.autodesk.com/view/OARX/2025/ENU/?guid=GUID-253E72F1-09B8-473E-A51B-B97BE2E29019

Best,

~DD

Re: Lisp For Getting Length Info In Multiple Units

tim_crouse — Tue, 26 Nov 2024 17:11:11 GMT

Nice, Thanks

Re: Lisp For Getting Length Info In Multiple Units

tim_crouse — Tue, 26 Nov 2024 17:30:06 GMT

Is there a way to include commas in the results?

Re: Lisp For Getting Length Info In Multiple Units

Kent1Cooper — Tue, 26 Nov 2024 18:41:51 GMT

@tim_crouse wrote:

Is there a way to include commas in the results?

[The same comments as for the other one apply, about the mode argument in (rtos) saving you the need to calculate feet and inches separately and put the string together with the foot & inch marks and hyphen.]

Do you mean comma as decimal separator, or comma as thousands/millions/etc. divider, or commas between the reports on each type of unit? [Or something else?]

Re: Lisp For Getting Length Info In Multiple Units

ec-cad — Tue, 26 Nov 2024 18:28:26 GMT

Cvunits output / return is fixed in format, just a tool to convert.

Once converted, you can (rtos) and add "," as needed.

Here's a sample when cvunit returns a 'list

(setq lst (list 1 2 3)) (setq result (cvunit lst "ft" "in")) (setq output "\nInches = ") (foreach item result (setq output (strcat output (rtos item 2 2) ",")) ); foreach (setq output (substr output 1 (- (strlen output) 1))) (alert output)

ECCAD

Re: Lisp For Getting Length Info In Multiple Units

jayhar — Wed, 27 Nov 2024 05:04:17 GMT

Hello,

Please check