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Ideally I am just wanting a lisp or plugin which would allow me to annotate rooms similar to how Revit does it, I would select the area within an enclosed Polyline Boundary, and then a room name, area and room code would be created and assigned to that room
Does anyone know of a lisp or plugin which would allow this
I have attempted Lee Macs Area to Table lisp but I can't get it to function smoothly enough to use on my drawings
You can try to use the standard Data Extraction command. And you can set polyline names using the AVC Properties Palette. For example such imanas as Room 1, Room 2... And then fill in the Data Table in two columns Name and Area. Is it good enough?
By the way, you can also save the room code in the polyline properties - there are additional fields Kind and Info.
In addition, you can not only fill in tables with this data, but also mark rooms using Smart Leaders or Mark command. There is also an option to pack each room into a block. You can add any number of any attributes to blocks. You can extract attribute values using standard tools without plugins. But blocks are harder to edit.
So this won't work, I need to annotate all the rooms in the project and theres hundreds, I need a fast way to annotate the drawing itself, and insert the room names and automatically calculate the area similar to how Revit does it, while also creating a data table with that information
The smart leaders look useful, but I can't buy any external packages, I have the full autocad license so it would have to be either a tool built in or a free external plugin/lisp which can be used for commercial use
Autocad without plugins is useless. AutoCAD is just a base for development. If you have money for AutoCAD, then you can definitely pay for a plugin for a couple of dollars a month, this is not a problem. And if Revit is more suitable for your tasks, then I see no reason to switch to bare AutoCAD. As for the quick naming of all rooms - there is such a program AvcNum. You can set up which objects to discard and how to sort the rest before numbering. And you can also choose the order of room numbers using the Manual Numbering command.
Sorry but it would have to be a free extension, I can not purchase anything from AVC to complete this so please don't link me to another paid subscription website.
Once again it would need to be a free to use, commercial use, lisp/plugin or built in function of AutoCAD.
Since you opted to use the statement "... similar to how Revit does it..." it begs the question why are you using plain stripped down general drafting made-for-no-one-special AutoCAD when the variant AutoCAD ARCHITECTURE has all that you ask for and is about as close to you other software's experience as it gets? There is a learning curve but hey, you're the one that is no longer using REVIT.
AutoCADARCH is free to install and use for anyone on an active subscription license of AutoCAD too.
Liberate yourself with the correct software my friend. Good luck.
I actually want to use AutoCAD Architecture, I saw that it has a lot of functions which would be perfect for what I am needing
But the company I am working for is working more with just normal AutoCAD and hasn't used multiple programs across the company to allow for ease of use for everyone involved including clients.
I used it before and it done the area things required but I couldn't transfer the information across to AutoCAD smoothly, doing so would require 2 programs to alter 1 set of drawings
Any advice on how to use both programs with no cross-program issues? If that makes sense?
@kieran.leadbetter wrote: I used it before and it done the area things required but I couldn't transfer the information across to AutoCAD smoothly, doing so would require 2 programs to alter 1 set of drawings
May I ask why the need to use "two separate programs" ? plain useless-for-architecture AutoCAD is still right there in the ARCH variant, it never disappears or goes away, you just need to create and use two workspaces in the one ARCH variant if you cannot just remember the core plain AutoCAD commands and need those buttons to click on instead.
@kieran.leadbetter wrote: Does seem like a large area to improve productivity
It is indeed: as with everything there is a learning curve, but the automation built into the ARCH-variant for the ARCH industry if phenomenally helpful to the bottom line (aka $$$$) for all AEC businesses.
