Inserting a block via the command line
>> when the program asks Select a point to insert block, I am not seeing the insert object.
inserted block will noticed in both way . try to scroll your mouse wheel to zoom in to see your inserted block.
Imad Habash
>> It appears on the screen only after specifying the insertion point.
This is how AutoCAD work .. it's normal .
Imad Habash
@AlexBern44 wrote:
.... I wanted the block to be also visible when the insertion point was selected, even before the insertion, as is the case with a normal block insert. ....
You need to be in an INSERT command at the time to get that, not in some generic get-a-point function that could be applicable to anything. [When (getpoint) is asking for a point, AutoCAD has no way of knowing what you're going to use it for.] Try it this way, with the pause operator at the place in the command where User input is required [in this case the insertion point]:
(command "_.insert" "C:\\USERS\\USER\\DESKTOP\\DRAWING" pause "" "" "")
It will supply the usual prompt, so you don't need to spell out what you're asking for, as you do when using (getpoint). [By the way, note that you don't need to include the filetype ending, though it doesn't hurt.]
Or in command-macro format that you could put into a Tool Palette item, where a backslash is used for where User input is required [which is why you need to use forward slashes for filepath dividers]:
^C^C_.INSERT C:/USERS/USER/DESKTOP/DRAWING \;;;
@AlexBern44 wrote:
....
Could you show please with an example of that code how it might look? ....
The first line of code in Message 9 should be all you need. You could just copy that and paste into the command line, and edit the filepath and name appropriately. Beyond that, it can be defined into a command that you can give a name, if you want, or put into a Tool Palette item either in that AutoLisp form or the macro variety in Message 9. Tell us more about exactly how you prefer to use it.
@AlexBern44 wrote:
.... ways to mirror or rescale the block while it is being inserted. That is, to change the direction of the block relative to the insertion point when it is already visible on the screen but not yet inserted in the drawing. ....
Read about the -INSERT command [note the hyphen prefix] in Help, and/or just type it in and look at the options -- you can scale it in any or all directions, rotate it, and some other things, before dragging it into place. If you have such options that you use regularly, you can build them into the command sequence inside an AutoLisp (command) function.
@AlexBern44 wrote:
.... I was expecting that there is some key combination that allows to make changes with a block that is already on the screen, in the process of insertion.
After all, this is fairly practical, let's take this example, key combinations "Ctrl +" could increase the scales by one step, "Ctrl + R" rotate by 1 degree, "Ctrl + X" mirror relative to the axis X, "Ctrl + Y" relative to the axis Y and so on.
....
I disagree that it's practical [see my bracketed question in what follows]. The "key combination" is to type in the abbreviation for one of the command-line options in the -INSERT command. Instead of Ctrl+ to scale it up by "one step" [who gets to decide what ratio "one step" is? and what if you want a scale factor that's between those "steps"?], you type in S for the Scale option [all axes together], and tell it directly exactly how much you want to scale it by. Instead of CtrlR to rotate it by 1° [what if you want to rotate it by something that's not whole degrees? and do you have to hit CtrlR 180 times to spin it half-way around? and do you need a separate one to rotate it in the other direction?], you type in R for the Rotate option, and tell it directly exactly how much you want to rotate it. Instead of CtrlX to mirror it in the X direction, you type in X for the X scale factor option, and tell it -1 [assuming you don't also want to change the size, but you can do that, too]. Etc., etc. All changes made in these ways go into effect immediately in what you see on-screen, so you can have it in its final scale and orientation and so on, as you drag it around to give it the insertion point.
