Lisp For Getting Length Info In Multiple Units

[timothy_crouse]

I needed a lisp to retrieve object length info in multiple units.

Note this has been used and tested with units set to Architectural and Decimal

Best Regards

-Tim C.

[CodeDing]

@timothy_crouse ,

Nothing wrong with putting your lisp skills to work; It's good practice!

But for future reference, you can also use the (cvunit ...) function to save some heartache:

https://help.autodesk.com/view/OARX/2025/ENU/?guid=GUID-253E72F1-09B8-473E-A51B-B97BE2E29019 

Best,

~DD

[timothy_crouse]

Nice, Thanks

[timothy_crouse]

Is there a way to include commas in the results?

[Kent1Cooper]

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@timothy_crouse wrote:

Is there a way to include commas in the results?

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[The same comments as for the other one apply, about the mode argument in (rtos) saving you the need to calculate feet and inches separately and put the string together with the foot & inch marks and hyphen.]

Do you mean comma as decimal separator, or comma as thousands/millions/etc. divider, or commas between the reports on each type of unit?  [Or something else?]

[ec-cad]

Cvunits output / return is fixed in format, just a tool to convert.

Once converted, you can (rtos) and add "," as needed.

Here's a sample when cvunit returns a 'list

(setq lst (list 1 2 3))
(setq result (cvunit lst "ft" "in"))
(setq output "\nInches = ")
(foreach item result
 (setq output (strcat output (rtos item 2 2) ","))
); foreach
(setq output (substr output 1 (- (strlen output) 1)))
(alert output)

ECCAD

[jayhar]

Hello,

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