Visual LISP, AutoLISP and General Customization Forum collection thread for code

[CGBenner]

Hello forum.

With our ongoing efforts to streamline these forums, our team is in the process of archiving forum posts that are older than ten years.  In an effort to not lose much of the code you all have been writing over the years, I've started this thread for you to copy and paste code that is in any of these older threads, so that it can be kept for the future.

Any forum post where the ORIGINAL post is ten years old or older will be archived.  I encourage you all to post here in this thread, or save offline, any code from those posts that you wish to keep.  Once the dust settles, we can figure out ways to repurpose these programs and snippets.... perhaps as blog posts (just a thought).

Thank you all (you know who you are) for everything you do for this Community!

[CodeDing]

@CGBenner ,

1) Is there a way in the forums to filter for posts 10+ years old? Or am I stuck using advanced Google search filters

2) Can we get a forums API that allows us to view boards/posts/users/solutions. That'd be pretty neat if you ask me. Just wishful thinking..

Best,

~DD

[Sea-Haven]

While your at it, have a look at Cadtutor long code posted is auto shortened to a few lines has a "Expand" button its my pet hate having to scroll scroll scroll  scroll  scroll  to get to next post. 

[CodeDing]

@CGBenner ,

I have noticed multiple times this week that the archiving process is breaking MANY useful links that we find on Google. No shot I'm going to archive every single old post I come across (i can't view the page/info anyways, they have already been archived). There are so many FOUNDATIONAL historical posts that are 10+ years old that have helped many users for many years. And this doesn't just apply to the customization forum, it applies to all the forums.

It's like you're destroying foundational knowledge that has helped people for 25+ years, just to have them need to ask it on the forums AGAIN.. Just to start another 10 year loop of knowledge. This is crazy. If any of the people at Autodesk actually used their products like their users do, they would recognize immediately that this is absurd.

Gonna have to start asking these foundational knowledge questions on different forums just so it isn't deleted in 10 years for no apparent reason. Because it's probably fair to assume that forum posts are a drop in the storage bucket compared to all of the cloud storage Autodesk is investing in now days. Unreal

~DD

[DGCSCAD]

This got annoying real fast when searches turn up broken links. I'm sure it's just a matter of propagating, but this all seems like deleting any world history that happened 10+ years ago.

When did Curiosity land on Mars? If you search AD, it never happened.

Who shot J.R.? Now THAT actually never happened. Ask Mathesar, but if you search AD...

Where are the "Archived" threads? I don't KNOW, Margot.

[markallenblanco]

This is horrible. I've been a lurker for years. I've obtained so much useful information from posts 10+ years old. I only even heard about the archiving this morning when searching how to use AutoLisp to select all viewports - Google had a link to an answer....and it's not there anymore.   I really hope "archive" means "ok wait a minute or two while we restore that info for you"  and not  "deleted" because of a misconception that the info is outdated.