Dave Corral

Add or subtract a constant from a selection set of text.
This routine will automatically screen out non text entities and text entities that are not numerical and then apply the constant (+ve or -ve) to the remaining numerical text entities.

Units Conversion Calculator v2.0 2002

This lisp routine will convert most units in the following categories:

• Linear

• Area

• Volume

• Time

• Mass

• Circular

The first dialog requests that you choose which category of units you wish to convert.
The second dialog requests that you choose the units to convert from and to. You can type in a value for the measurement of the convert from units in the space provided, then click convert, and the calculation is done. The default conversion value is 1. Accepting this when clicking convert will give you the actual conversion factor.

Embankment Line Generator

Chainages Lisp Routine

This lisp routine will draw chainages at user defined intervals along a 2D polyline. It use a block called "sv.dwg" which contains a single attribute for the chainage text. IMPORTANT: the chainages will go from the start of the polyline in the direction that it was drawn.

As a bonus you can also number bend points or PI's (points of intersection of curves) by typing BENDS (currently this only numbers the ends of the polyline segments, it does not number the intersection of straights at bends).

Label Co-ordinates

This routine will label the northing(X-coord) and easting(Y-coord) of a picked point.

Important : UCS must be set to read correct co-ordinates.

You will be prompted for scale of drawing, number of decimals for coordinates, rotation angle for text and then to pick points or enter to end.

Create Longsection from 2D Contours DC_LSEC.lsp v1.0

Operation of the routine :

1. Type DC_LSEC at the command prompt.
2. You will be prompted as follows :
Horizontal scale: This is the horizontal scale you wish for the longsection
(it is assumed that your contour drawing is full scale ie 1:1)
Vertical scale: This is the vertical scale for the longsection.
Datum: This is the datum level for the longsection.

Start of longsection: This is an arbitrary point near to where you would like your longsection to start
The chainage 0 will be you first point or contour picked.
End of longsection: This again is an arbitrary point near the end of your longsection.
The end chainage will be the final point that you pick.

You are then prompted to pick points along the line drawn for your longsection. At each pick you are prompted for a level of contour. The routine will automatically snap to intersection of the line and contour but you may pick a point (spot height) anywhere in between the contours.

Upon completion of picking points press enter and then you will be prompted to pick insertion point of longsection. This is the intersection point of the Datum and chainage 0.

3. The longsection will now be drawn and upon completion you will be prompted as follows:
Horizontal grid spacing: This is the distance between the vertical lines that will be drawn as a grid over the longsection.
Vertical grid spacing: This is the distance between the horizontal lines of the grid. Each of these lines will be labelled with a level relative to the datum.

Section Arrow Lisp Routine

This routine will automatically insert, align and label section indication arrows. If ortho mode is off, the arrows will be aligned with the points picked. If ortho mode is on, the arrows will align with the UCS. User input required is to pick the two points on either side of the "section", you will then be prompted for the section label.

Slope Annotation Lisp routine

Incremental Numbering

This routine will prompt for (in order) text height, text angle, prefix (enter for none), start number, final number and increment. Then simply pick the position of each consecutive number in order from start to end. This is useful for numbering erven or town plot layouts.

Create a file of co-ordinates by picking points from the drawing.
You will be prompted for the file name and then a dialog box will come up asking if you want to include labels, if yes, then if you wish to type them in or pick them as text entities from the drawing. The same for the levels. Remember if you choose to type in the values, all of the values have to be typed, similarly if you choose to pick values all of the values have to be picked (MTEXT and attributes are not recognised).
When complete press enter and the file will be closed.

Rotate Blocks

This routine does just that ! It takes each selected block entity and adds the angle input by you to each block entities current rotation angle, i.e. the blocks in your selection set need not all have the same rotation angle. Positive angles are measured counter clockwise and negative angles are measured clockwise.

Rotate text

This routine does just that ! It takes each selected text entity and adds the angle input by you to each text entities current rotation angle, ie the text in your selection set need not all have the same rotation angle. Positive angles are measured counter clockwise and negative angles are measured clockwise.

Scale Text

Use this routine if you are changing the scale of a drawing, or, if you wish to change the size of text within a drawing. This is very useful if you have various text heights and you do not want to lose the proportions of these heights.

You will be prompted for the old scale of the drawing and then the new scale for the drawing. A scale factor is then calculated.
You are then prompted to select the text. You can use "ALL" as your selection set as non text entities will be ignored. The scale factor is then applied to all text entities found.

Survey Co-ordinate Grid SGRID.lsp version 3.1

Explanation of Dialog Control Box:

Northing: This is the notation for the axis (latitude) that you wish to use. In the southern hemisphere this will normally be X. If you select X here your easting axis will automatically be labelled Y

Text Orientation: This determines whether the text will be written Upright or Inverted. This will depend on the orientation of your UCS. Normally we orientate our drawings so that North points towards he top of the screen but in order to read correct co-ordinates our UCSICON is rotated so that it points to the bottom of the screen. In this case to get your text written so that it is correct on screen you select the text to be inverted.

Text Alignment: This determines whether the text will be Aligned (parallel) with the axes or Horizontal. Again this would depend on your current UCS. Horizontal will align the text to the x-axis of your UCS.

Cross Length: This will determine the size of the cross at each co-ordinate point. The length that you input here will be scaled according to the Drawing Scale as discussed later. I have found that a good size to use would be 20.

Grid Style: This determines the style of grid you wish to use. If you choose Full you will be prompted for the lower left point of the grid and then the upper right point of the grid. The routine will then draw in all the grid crosses and co-ordinates that will fit between these two points based on the Grid Interval that you have selected. If you choose Partial you will be prompted to pick points for each grid cross where you want each of them to be.

Grid Interval: This will determine the spacing of the crosses. You will notice that the grid snap is set to this spacing that you choose, this is to make it easier for picking the points as discussed in Grid Style.

Drawing Scale: This will scale the cross length and the text height. The text height is programmed such that when plotted out the text height will be 2.5mm.

3D Node Ordinate Table
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This routine is used for creating a table of X, Y and Z ordinates of 3D objects by picking the points to be co-ordinated. It will also give the option to add a label to each set of ordinates.

Once the 3D object has been set up in the 3D view that you wish and the UCS is set to view. Load the lisp routine XYZTBL.LSP and type "3DTABLE" at the command prompt. You will be prompted for insertion point of table, then rotation angle, scale and number of decimals. The dialog box will then be shown, asking whether or not you wish to label points. If you choose to label points you are further prompted to opt to enter or pick labels. Enter labels requires keyboard input when requested and pick labels requires you to pick text entities that were put in prior to running the lisp routine using normal drafting methods. (NOTE this pick label routine does not recognise MTEXT entities). The table of ordinates will be created as you pick the points. When finished picking points, press enter and you will be prompted for the table heading. All of the above will be placed on a layer COORD_TBL which is automatically created and made current by the routine.

About the table:
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The layer coord_tbl will have a colour assignment of yellow and linetype continuous.
The text style will be the current style and colour yellow as well, and height 2.5mm x the scale specified.
The table heading will be color red and height 3mm x scale specified.
The columns will be as follows: Node 15mm wide
X,Y,Z 25mm wide.

You can download DC-Tools here. ( 98kb )