Questions about Lips's and building an auto update transmittal & title block

[jarred.salihovic93]

Hi Guys,

I'm a long time reader of the forums here, though new to posting....... Anyway I have recently heard about a transmittal system that automatically updates Itself with current revision to match the drawings as well as populates the address, job number, client etc etc all from the DWG and vice versa the title block can also be populated and drawings can be up rev'ed from the transmittal, all the transmittal's we're made in excel.

I'm just wondering how feasible it would be to build a system like this for myself from scratch? how would I go about building it?

[TheCADnoob · Accepted solution]

This question may be better fielded in the customization forum http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/visual-lisp-autolisp-and-general/bd-p/130

That said, i would say its quite doable and your particular ability to build it will be determined by your current understanding and experience. I think to tackle this you need to explicitly identify what you want the program to do and put together a flow diagram so you know what pieces you want to create first. Reading a writing to a dwg from a csv file (primitive excel) is fairly simple. Doing it in a batch is a little more complicated, but doable. 

There may be features that you are looking for already created in tools like Sheet Set Managers etc. So i would check that out first before you potentially reinvent the wheel. 

[deusextechnic]

Hi, I would agree with CADNoob. Decide what you want and then research existing solutions. If you do decide to embark on the coding journey, I recommend using .net rather than lisp if your skill level permits. The libraries are just vastly superior and easier to use (once you put the time in to learn it).