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I don't think it should be necessary to change how Excel delimits entries -- if you post a sample file, we can see how it does, and presumably read lines from it and process them according to whatever the delimiter is.
Which direction is "length" and which is "width" [horizontal vs. vertical, or X-axis direction vs. Y-axis direction]?
Kent Cooper, AIA 
@bedros.j wrote:
Let's say i have an excel list like this and i need AutoCAD to read this list in a way and generate Rectangles (First Size 77x190 units drawn somewhere in coordinate) second size 80x190 away from the first coordinate, 3rd size etc...
So i will get 1 AutoCAD File with rectangles drawn away from each other
Would I be correct in the following assumptions?
A) It is a .csv filetype, not .xls or .xlsx or something.
B) It contains a line with those headers at the top, so that if I do this:
Command: (setq test (open "X:\\file\\path\\TheFileName.csv" "r"))
#<file "X:\\file\\path\\TheFileName.csv">
and then this:
Command: (read-line test)
first I will get:
"#,Length,Width,Qty"
C) Then subsequently I will get returns like this:
Command: (read-line test)
"1,77,190,1"
Given all those assumptions, that could be worked out, but you haven't answered the question in my previous Reply. Given your first three rectangles there are at least four possible results:
ALSO:
What if the Quantity column says more than 1? Should all of them be drawn separately, or just one to represent that size?
What kind of drawing units are you talking about? From Post 1:
"...the other one can be drawn, 0,4000) 4 meters away"
suggests millimeters, but surely if the rectangles are in the range of 80ish x 190 millimeters, you don't want them 4 meters apart. Or do you? In my image they're 190 drawing units in the greater dimension, and 4 drawing units apart, whatever the drawing unit may be.
[EDIT: Come to think of it, the "0,4000" suggests only two possible results, the bottom-edge one and the middle-most one in my image, but you still need to say which.]
Kent Cooper, AIA
Hi Kent
thanks for your input, will look further on what you are trying to achieve but sorry for not being so much clear,
the idea was to draw rectangles not touching each other, so I assumed 4000mm away from each other although the first pieces were going to create a lot of Gap, but that was okay since I was going to use the cad File to NEST them inside sheets with another software. (4000mm can be X or variable that user can input if we are talking programming) see snapshot below but here X is not 4000mm for sure
A) not aware of .csv will check further
B) will check this is new for me
C) any of the snapshot solutions is acceptable as long as rectangles are not touching each other
D) what is Qty is 2 or 55 well this is tricky not thought of it: either I would copy the same thing 55 times and consider qty always 1, or you can propose a better solution (adding annotation inside that box which is let's say more than 1?? - not sure)
hope I addressed all the points you mentioned,
again thanks for your input,
Bedros
@bedros.j wrote:
...B) will check this is new for me
...
You can take a .XLSX file and SaveAs it into a .CSV file [the file-type pull-down under the file name slot in the Excel SaveAs dialog box]. I did that with @Ranjit_Singh2's Book1.xlsx file and turned it into a Book1.csv file, which is so much easier to deal with in AutoLisp. In simplest terms, and minimally tested, and without all the usual bells and whistles, this seems to do it, with [arbitrarily -- make it what you want] 5 drawing units' space between each rectangle:
(defun C:DOIT (/ source base str X n Y)
(setq
source (open (findfile "Book1.csv") "r")
base '(0 0 0)
); setq
(read-line source); header line [do nothing with it]
(while (setq str (read-line source))
(setq
str (substr str (+ (vl-string-search "," str) 2)); remove line number
X (atof (substr str 1 (setq n (vl-string-search "," str))))
Y (atof (substr str (+ n 3) (1+ (vl-string-search "," str n))))
); setq
(command "_.rectang" "_none" base "_none" (mapcar '+ base (list X Y)))
(setq base (polar base 0 (+ X 5)))
); while
(close source)
(princ)
); defun
The result is not quite like your image, where the spacing between left edges is apparently intended to be a regular multiple, but in the case of the sizes in that file, they'd overlap a lot within a few of them from the start. It could be made to get all the X and Y dimensions first, calculate a spacing from the largest X dimension, and then draw them, if that's preferred.
Kent Cooper, AIA
@bedros.j wrote:
....
I might Need to add Label Column which is a Text to be displayed inside the drawn rectangle (Anyplace but not touching the lines) and the height of the text can be the Width minus 50 or X units. can this be done?
....
One nice little feature of the (vl-string-position) function is that it can find a character's position from the end rather than from the beginning of the string. The ASCII character code for a comma is 44. So as long as the label part is always following the last comma in the .csv line, try this [the grey stuff is the same as before]:
(defun C:DOIT (/ source base str X n Y)
(setq
source (open (findfile "Book1.csv") "r")
base '(0 0 0)
); setq
(read-line source); header line [do nothing with it]
(while (setq str (read-line source))
(setq
str (substr str (+ (vl-string-search "," str) 2)); remove line number
X (atof (substr str 1 (setq n (vl-string-search "," str))))
Y (atof (substr str (+ n 3) (1+ (vl-string-search "," str n))))
); setq
(command
"_.rectang" "_none" base "_none" (mapcar '+ base (list X Y))
"_.text"
"_style" "YourNonFixedHeightStyle"
"_mc" "_none" (mapcar '+ base (list (/ X 2) (/ Y 2))); midpoint of rectangle
(- Y 50) 0 ; height & rotation
(substr str (+ (vl-string-position 44 str nil T) 2)); content
); command
(setq base (polar base 0 (+ X 5)))
); while
(close source)
(princ)
); defun
Kent Cooper, AIA
@bedros.j wrote:
- i have saved as CSV (Comma Delimited) - it can be opened normally by excel
....
was that the reason for it not working?
I don't know the reason, but when I SaveAs choosing the .csv format, I don't get that warning when I go to open the result. But in any case, that file is internally in .csv format [the lines read in the proper way], so even though when I downloaded it, the result had the .xls filetype ending, with a renaming, it worked for me, with this modified code:
(defun C:DOIT (/ source base str X n Y)
(setq
source (open (findfile "Book1.csv") "r")
base '(0 0 0)
); setq
(read-line source); header line [do nothing with it]
(while (setq str (read-line source))
(setq
str (substr str (+ (vl-string-search "," str) 2)); remove line number
X (atof (substr str 1 (setq n (vl-string-search "," str))))
Y (atof (substr str (+ n 2) (1+ (vl-string-search "," str n))))
); setq
(command
"_.rectang" "_none" base "_none" (mapcar '+ base (list X Y))
"_.text"
"_style" "Standard"
"_mc" "_none" (mapcar '+ base (list (/ X 2) (/ Y 2))); midpoint of rectangle
(/ Y 2.0) 0 ; height & rotation
(substr str (+ (vl-string-position 44 str nil T) 2)); content
); command
(setq base (polar base 0 (+ X 5)))
); while
(close source)
(princ)
); defun
That 2 was 3 before -- I haven't dug back to figure out what may have been different if 3 worked for me in the simpler file before, but this seems to work with the current file.
I filled in "Standard" as the Text Style. Make sure that has a defined height of 0.
I changed the text height part, because it was originally the width minus 50 as you requested in Post 1, but in the current file that results in a negative value for many of them, which is rejected.
Kent Cooper, AIA
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