Graphs and charts, need a better way!

[Anonymous]

I have been creating graphs and charts with autocad, using autocad entities
via autolisp.
Doing this way proves to be very tedious, difficult, and I end up with
objects in autocad that are thousands of entities.

If have been told from the autolisp forum that creating graphs and charts
might be better suited to the vb environment.

Can anyone point me in the right direction? I am trying to create Ghant
charts and various bar style charts.

Thank you all for your help.

Bob 🙂

[Anonymous]

Hi Bob Quinn
Just an idea only
Maybe you need to create the chart in Excel and then
to insert it as OLE object into AutoCAD drawing
Forget about if that was a silly answer though 🙂

~'J'~

[Anonymous]

Hi Bob,

Changing the programming language will not change the output to a drawing.

Instead you need to examine the AutoCAD entities you are creating.

Look at dynamic blocks using attributes for the text in the Events. This
will reduce each Event in the Gantt Chart to a single item and if you use an
appropriately designed leader you may be able to reasonably simulate the
link objects in a Gantt chart.


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Laurie Comerford
CADApps
www.cadapps.com.au
www.civil3Dtools.com
"Bob Quinn" wrote in message
news:5413179@discussion.autodesk.com...
I have been creating graphs and charts with autocad, using autocad entities
via autolisp.
Doing this way proves to be very tedious, difficult, and I end up with
objects in autocad that are thousands of entities.

If have been told from the autolisp forum that creating graphs and charts
might be better suited to the vb environment.

Can anyone point me in the right direction? I am trying to create Ghant
charts and various bar style charts.

Thank you all for your help.

Bob 🙂

[Anonymous]

Just a simple comment but is your time worth doing this?
Wouldn't spending the roughly 500$ for MS Project (or other project software) then using
OLE to insert into the drawing work faster/better/cheaper?

Phil Custer, P.E.
Custer Services, Inc.
custer@landfillgas.com

On Sun, 3 Dec 2006 20:49:29 +0000, Laurie Comerford
wrote:

>Hi Bob,
>
>Changing the programming language will not change the output to a drawing.
>
>Instead you need to examine the AutoCAD entities you are creating.
>
>Look at dynamic blocks using attributes for the text in the Events. This
>will reduce each Event in the Gantt Chart to a single item and if you use an
>appropriately designed leader you may be able to reasonably simulate the
>link objects in a Gantt chart.

[Anonymous]

Bob,

Look into using OWC (Office Web Components) if you have Office installed. There are components for spreadsheets and for Graphs. I have used them for a while - they work great and are free...:)

Paul

[Anonymous]

Thanks for all your input, it looks like I will be researching all the
possibilities for a while!!