Advance Steel custom commands-share your ideas

[acbsdesign]

Hello,

It will be nice to learn more about custom commands / combination of Autocad and Advance Steel commands improving productivity. 

To colleagues willing to share-Thank you.

Here is a tiny example:

"Hide parts with identical numbers"-used when parts are detailed using drawings styles.

^C^C_AstM5equalpartsMarkSame \;AstM4CommSelectMarkedObjects ;_AstM4SwitchReprMode off

And another one:

"Hide Similar Advance Steel Objects":

^C^C_SelectSimilar \;_AstM4SwitchReprMode off

Regards, 

Ilko Dimitrov

ACBS

[Jonathan3891]

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@MetallPlanMerkinger wrote:

Hello@Jonathan3891 

I have seen your Lisp for setting the model role.

I'm looking for a command to set the checkboxes from the user Attributes.

Do you have an Idea, if that checkboxes can be changed with lisp?

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I haven't been able to figure out how to set user attributes via lisp like @bigcarl5000kg mentioned. 

[FCort]

Thank you for the reply.
I hope it will be easy steps to convert lisp to the new Revit programming languages.
Also for the custom commands.

[Julio_Soto]

@Jonathan3891 

how did you find these Hype functions to create this lisp? Is there a list available? I'd like to snoop around, maybe there are other possibilities. 

[Jonathan3891]

@Julio_Soto which lisp are you referring to? I've posted several in this thread.

[bigcarl5000kg]

method 1 - easy write hype in the command line 😁 and then you will see all related commands

[markhubrich]

Look here..

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/advance-steel-forum/lisp-question/td-p/9910700

[bigcarl5000kg]

method 2 - sample:

https://www.quora.com/What-are-all-of-Autodesk-s-advanced-steel-commands

[Julio_Soto]

sorry, the one about setting model roles

[Jonathan3891]

I think it's the same list that is in the link @bigcarl5000kg provided.

[Julio_Soto]

I was creating a bunch of User profiles and I got really tired of placing all the axis and coordinate system blocks. Even having the blocks in my drawing and moving them around gets tiring. So I created a LISP to insert all the AS axes and coordinate system blocks based on user input of 2 points.

for this lisp to work all the Axes and coordinate system blocks must be present in the drawing. I don't know where AS pulls the blocks from so I coulnd't insert them myself.   I think it works okay but I didn't test it heavily. Let me know if it bugs out.

This may be helpful to some. 

 

[Sebastian_Eiche]

the block is inserted by the command correct? maybe the start of the lisp could be run every command one time and exit the command and then use the point to insert them?

[Julio_Soto]

the command AS runs is (HYPE_addrefaxis 1), and you must select an object. I wouldn't be surprised if the lisp creates the block on demand. It probably doesn't pull it from anywhere.

[Julio_Soto]

sorry, had to update the LISP. I had to set the layer of the blocks to the proper AS layers for the profiling generation to pick up the axes.

[Lewk_SGS]

Heya, this is really handy. I create new sections all the time working as a detailer for not only structural but electrical components as well. This is a nifty little time saver for placing those pesky blocks. Thanks!

[MetallPlanMerkinger]

Hi all! I have created two small tools for Advance Steel 2025 with VBA, maybe someone can alos use it.

You have to add this commands to a Button:

^C^C-vbaausf prototypes.load_prototypes

^C^C-vbaausf BOMExporter.BOMexporter

One is for automatic copy prototypes from server to local drawing path. In my case i work for some different clients, and for everyone i have another prototypes. With that tool i copy all the prototypes bay two clicks.

The other one is for BOM Processing:

but this one has to be used carefully, when the process is runnung, dont touch the mouse 😅

I have added some Mouse and keyboard kommands, to control the BOMVIEWER.exe

You can add up to 15 BOM Templates, the Name and Key has to be exact the same than in advancesteel, otherwise it wont work. By Clicking run, all the selectet lists getting created and saved as xls or pdf, existing files will be overwritten.

PS: I am no programmer, so the code maybe looks funny (thank you Chat GPT), but it works for me, maybe some loops can be added...

attached the dvb file in the zipfile