topic create a Legend with LISP in Visual LISP, AutoLISP and General Customization Forum

create a Legend with LISP

jtm2020hyo — Tue, 03 Dec 2019 20:21:04 GMT

I found "Block Counter" created by @Lee_Mac

I need one hero to add "description" or "block description" in the "countsettings" (image 02) and to work with regular blocks, dynamic blocks, nested blocks

the result should be something like this:

link lisp:

http://www.lee-mac.com/blockcounter.html (CountV1-5)

http://www.lee-mac.com/nestedblockcounter.html (BlockCountV1-5)

http://www.lee-mac.com/dynamicblockcounter.html (DBcountV1-1)

Re: create a Legend with LISP

devitg — Tue, 03 Dec 2019 20:28:23 GMT

Please upload your SAMPLE.DWG. With all such differents blocks kind.

Re: create a Legend with LISP

jtm2020hyo — Tue, 03 Dec 2019 20:33:51 GMT

@devitg wrote:
Please upload your SAMPLE.DWG. With all such differents blocks kind.

here my blocks

Re: create a Legend with LISP

devitg — Tue, 03 Dec 2019 20:53:26 GMT

Hi , it seem to be that Bcount , by itself , can do it with any block kind.

I'm diggin on it to get the description.

Hope I can get it.

;;--------------------------=={ Block Count }==-------------------------;;
;;                                                                      ;;
;;  This program will generate a report detailing the individual        ;;
;;  quantities of primary and nested blocks, dynamic blocks & xrefs in  ;;
;;  a selection or an entire drawing.                                   ;;
;;                                                                      ;;
;;  The program will correctly count the number of nested blocks,       ;;
;;  nested dynamic blocks and nested xrefs; nested to any level; and    ;;
;;  with any number of instances of the same block at each level.       ;;
;;                                                                      ;;
;;  Of course, the program may be used as a standard block counter,     ;;
;;  since the nested block count data is displayed separately from the  ;;
;;  primary block count data, and the nested report will not be shown   ;;
;;  if there are no nested blocks in the drawing.                       ;;
;;                                                                      ;;
;;  The report is printed to the command-line and separately details    ;;
;;  the number of primary and nested blocks with a break-down of the    ;;
;;  quantities for each individual block name, together with the total  ;;
;;  number of primary and nested blocks located adjacent to the report  ;;
;;  headings. The printed report may subsequently be extracted to       ;;
;;  either a Text or CSV file.                                          ;;
;;                                                                      ;;
;;----------------------------------------------------------------------;;
;;  Author:  Lee Mac, Copyright © 2014  -  www.lee-mac.com              ;;
;;----------------------------------------------------------------------;;
;;  Version 1.5    -    2014-02-02                                      ;;
;;----------------------------------------------------------------------;;

Re: create a Legend with LISP

devitg — Tue, 03 Dec 2019 21:52:39 GMT

erased by DEVITG ,

Re: create a Legend with LISP

marko_ribar — Wed, 04 Dec 2019 12:17:31 GMT

I remember using that lisp of Lee Mac for my needs also, but I never used it to enter Settings - I made my version to do directly what I needed and I added column for block counting preview scheme in kind of list structure... As for description I created completely new table which imports csv Excel file - I have csv with me and I can alter changes whenever I needed it... The problem with my versions is that table may be big for project with which it should be presented - floor plan etc... We don't know how big count preview list would look like, so we can't predict column width, but I have accounted that it should span according to largest one found in project...

I'll attach what I have so that you can see what I mean, and if you accept my solution I suppose I should get some gratitude or perhaps accept solution mark...

Re: create a Legend with LISP

jtm2020hyo — Wed, 04 Dec 2019 20:05:26 GMT

sorry for the answer too late. I was trying to understand your work.

beautiful .lsp and .vlx, working with block attributes and csv imported tables.

it's a good idea. and I like it.

just curiously, do you have any method to insert or import the description to the blocks?

Re: create a Legend with LISP

marko_ribar — Wed, 04 Dec 2019 20:29:47 GMT

Collect block names you want to add description, iterate through names and apply this sub to block definition ename...

Subfunction is already posted in your newly started topic, and you can also find it here :

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/visual-lisp-autolisp-and-general/change-block-description-in-autolisp/m-p/895138/highlight/true#M120796