topic Re: CUSTOM PULL DOWN MENU FOR BLOCK LIBRARY in Visual LISP, AutoLISP and General Customization Forum

CUSTOM PULL DOWN MENU FOR BLOCK LIBRARY

Anonymous — Sun, 20 Jan 2019 18:36:37 GMT

AutoCad 2012

First off, I'm not accustomed to programming in AutoCad. I have been having my block library folder open right next to AutoCad so I can just drag and drop .dwgs into the drawing I'm working on.

1) How do I create a pull down menu that can pull blocks from my block library? Or, what is a good document to show me how?

2) Is it possible to make the pulldown sub-menu follow the filepaths without having to program in every single sub-filepath?

- I have already looked into making pallets. This is not what I am looking for.

3) Is there a way to make it so that when you do bring in a block, it doesn't ask you what x,y scale and angle you want it to be?

Re: CUSTOM PULL DOWN MENU FOR BLOCK LIBRARY

Jonathan3891 — Mon, 21 Jan 2019 11:21:54 GMT

Read this for creating a pulldown menu.

The command will be one of the following...

If you have a support path set to your block folder;

^C^C-insert;Block.dwg;Scale;1;0,0,0;0;

If you dont, then use;

^C^Cinsert;PATH AND NAME OF BLOCK;1;0,0,0;0;

I personally like to place all my block on a tool palette. You can drag and drop them too the palette, then right click and select properties. There you can set how you want the block to come in.

Re: CUSTOM PULL DOWN MENU FOR BLOCK LIBRARY

pendean — Mon, 21 Jan 2019 14:58:56 GMT

Any reason you want to avoid using ADCENTER or TOOLPALETTEs for this simple task? Never take any more clicks hat hunting/clicking a pulldown menu.

Re: CUSTOM PULL DOWN MENU FOR BLOCK LIBRARY

Anonymous — Mon, 21 Jan 2019 15:03:04 GMT

I DON'T REALLY CARE FOR THE TOOL PALLET BECAUSE I JUST HAVE WAY TO MANY BLOCKS TO SORT THROUGH.

The ADCENTER makes me type in a scale for x,y and an angle for putting in the block. I'd like to have it where I can just drag and drop it in the drawing without having to do the inputs. Like if the inputs for the scale where just automatically set to 1,1,0=x,y,angle.