Estimated time for completion: 5 minutes. Move it up and out of the way, front and center, or, for you traditionalists, back down in the lower left corner. By default, the command line is in a floating mode, which means it can be moved and placed anywhere on your screenor even on another screen. Try the following statements at the Command line, first using the (setq) command to specify several points, and then executing AutoCAD commands through AutoLISP. AutoCAD command line enhancements: Floating command line. ( command “pline” POINT1 “w” STARTING_WIDTH ENDING_WIDTH POINT2 “”)Ĭommand: pline Specify start point: 2,2 Current line-width is 0.0000 Specify next point or : w ( setq STARTING_WIDTH 0.1 ENDING_WIDTH 0.1 POINT1 “2,2” POINT2 “4,4” ) See also Accessing Subentities (Alternate) with autolisp in AutoCADĬommand: circle Specify center point for circle or : Specify radius of circle or : 2 Command: nil The (command) function always returns nil.Ĭommand: line Specify first point: 0,0 Specify next point or : 1,5 Specify next point or : Command: nil In the upper left corner of the dialog box will be registered current AutoCAD text style. The (command) function with no arguments is equivalent to canceling the active command. List the team name in the Style command line in AutoCAD and press Enter.
Will display a Dim: prompt on the command prompt line.
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It is followed by the command’s options input in the same order they would be typed at the AutoCAD “Command:” prompt. To draw the line of 150 units, you will have to ( Here is how to change units in AutoCAD) Activate the LINE command. can be transparent DIM Takes you out of the drawing editor and into the semi-automatic dimensioning program built into AutoCAD. The first argument to the (command) function is always the command name. Ya, it takes 4 seconds to dock it, but I have 100 users dealing with it. Happens on versions 2015 to 2019 at least. I am seeing that every acad session after a civil3d one will undock the command line. Rather than have an entirely new set of drawing and editing commands, AutoLISP permits the user to tap all of AutoCAD’s existing commands from within AutoLISP using the (command) function. I have icons for both acad and civil3d, with /p switches so each has a different profile.