AutoLine.exe is an AutoCAD Screen Saver that displays Radical, Random, Colorful Line Patterns in the current viewport. AutoLine.exe is compatible with AutoCAD release 12 & 13. AutoLine is hot-key activated, it does not automatically start after a set period of inactivity as do Windows screen savers. Nor does it cover the entire screen,, the screen menu, status line, and command line are left on screen and are not affected by AutoLine. Therefore it does not protect your screen from long term static image exposure in those areas..
Change text justification using a dialog box.
The Phantom Menace Star Wars Episode I Screensaver
Scripteeze Batch Utility - allows batch processing of AutoCAD scripts...
great of updating, plotting, or modifying AutoCAD dwgs....fully WINDOWS
compatible.
Change from upper to lower case & vice versa with a click of a button
Create a 3d spiral
Change all the dates in your drawings to make them Y2K compliant.
This module provides functions to manipulate the visibility
field of
AutoCAD objects. BLANK will make a selection set of objects invisible.
UNBLANK will make a specified object (given its handle) visible.
UNBLANKALL will make all
blanked entities visible.
From Owen Wengerd
LockToolbar is a utility which "locks" AutoCAD Release 14 toolbars in position by tricking Windows into ignoring mouse picks on anything but the toolbar buttons themselves. This prevents the common problem of accidentally rearranging toolbars.
Thanks to Peter Thomson, senior draughtsman at Montgomery Watson New Zealand Ltd.
Combines all text and attribute edit
commands into one command.
A2000 Only
Gets the drawing properties, title, author, creation time, etc.
This is not a finished
routine, but is meant to be used as a subroutine inside of user's
program.
Four Autocad R14 drawings containing blocks that can be used in house or landscaping design
Annotate or "Plot Stamp" AutoCAD
2000 Drawings
Adds the specified plot
stamp information (such as drawing name, layout name, date and time,
and so on) to a drawing that is plotted to any device.
Layout Utility adds some new commands to
AutoCAD 2000. Pageout lets you create and store plot settings in
a named page setup. Pagein lets you import Pageout settings into
any drawing. Viewtolayout copies objects and current page
settings in a paper space view and creates a new layout in the
same
drawing.
Prints the radius of the circles in a drawing in the text window.
This routine was requested by Peter Nigh.
You can then use
Copy Paste to copy the radius values to an ASCII text
file.
This routine lists the blocks in your drawing and the current X/Y
scale of each block insert. Saves time instead of having to list each block.
Works
in R14 or 2000.
This routine adds all the text entities and provides a sum.
File Fission Wizard is the easiest way to split a file into smaller pieces. It uses an intuitive wizard interface, and a batch file for recombining. You can use File Fission Wizard to
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E-Mail large files to problematic servers
- Copy files to and from your laptop or second computer
- Archive seldom-used files
- Give large files to your friends.
- Backup huge downloads
Takes 1 or more lines of text and converts them to mtext. Works in R14 and A2K.
Allows you to label cables, wires, panels quickly. Set a prefix value, a starting number, an increment value and then just select insertion points.
Rotates blocks to a user-specified angle
Thanks to P.Farrell
Freezes selected entities in current vport only...also freezes layers on xrefs.
Moves selected entities to z = 0< /P >< /P >< /P >
Extracts the attributes in your drawing to a file. Uses the lsp & dcl that come with AutoCAD. Be sure to download the tutorial as well.
Makes a 3D cylinder..User specifies inner and outer diameter. For a
solid cylinder, specify an inner dia of zero.
User enters a text string, routine searches through text, mtext and attributes and then zooms to that area of the drawing. Text must match exactly - no partial phrases, spelling errors, etc. Lower/upper/mixed case OK.
Re-scales all the inserts/blocks in a drawing to 1:1 scale
Demo software for product that allows user to take bmp or tiff files and translate them to dxf files into AutoCAD. I tried it and it actually works better than most. Instead of dots, entities actually get translated to lines and arcs(!) Scale will be off unless your scanner is really fine.
Creates a (text file) report for all the layers in a drawing
FREE AutoCAD2000 ScreenSaver from AutoDesk - zipped for fast download
pid.zip - Thanks to Ed Stannard!
Inserts the x and y coordinates as text at a selected point (good application for GIS
pmark.zip- by Barry Bowen
A collection of four files that demonstrate extracting attribute data from a drawing to an Excel spreadsheet.
REDLINE.ZIP/EXE- by Tony Hotchkiss
A collection of 13 files designed for teachers grading AutoCAD drawings. (After extracting files, see redliner.txt for instructions)
3D Architectural Symbols for use in Architectural Desktop
Dilbert is attached by giant falling vegetables
Hydraulic symbols for use in AutoCAD2000/i and R14
Civil and landscape symbols for use in AutoCAD2000/i and R14
Eliminates every other vertex in a polyline - AutoCAD2000
This routine brings up a drop-down list of all existing layers. The user selects a layer. All items on the layer and the layer will be purged from the current drawing. Great if you use a construction or scratch layer. Works in AutoCAD R14 and above.
This routine allows the user to redefine an exploded block that has been edited. Replaces all existing blocks with the new block. Command to run is 'rb'. AutoCAD R14 and above
This routine places a floor or ceiling grid. User can select several different grid types using a dialog box. The ab_gr_arrow.dwg should be placed in the support path or in a directory listed under support files to ensure AutoCAD can find it. Works with ADT R3.3/AutoCAD20002.
This routine will offset an xref's line or polyline without exploding or opening the xref - AutoCAD14/2i/2002
Zip file contains space tag block and lisp routine. Works in ADTR3.3 ONLY. Allows the user to select a space and inserts a tag with the space properties automatically. Great time-saver.
This powerpoint includes a set of Inventor avi files created by students at DeAnza College. A great motivator if you teach Inventor or can be used as a screen saver. Warning: This file is 15MB.
The Inventor Design Tracker can be used by Engineers, Purchasing
Managers, Operations, etc. to view and check status of Inventor drawings.
Great for collaboration - also can be used by customers.
Can only be installed and used on systems that
DON'T have Inventor
dnote.zip Thanks to Joe Kimberlin
Uses a dialog box where the user can select common dimension suffixes, i.e. TYP./MIN./MAX, select a dimension and automatically update the dimension.
Change the attribute height of all blocks in your drawing without exploding the blocks. Routine prompts for new attribute height, automatically searches your drawings for all blocks, and then modifies the attribute heights without changing attribute values or exploding the blocks
Prompts user for a x-centerpoint, y-centerpoint, radius, and number of points. Then creates a set of points for a circle based on user input. Good example to learn lisp.
You want to modify the Revision Number field on the Statistic tab of the Drawing Properties dialog box. This field is used by revision control or other drawing management software. There is no simple method for editing this field. However, you can use this AutoLISP function to update this field.
Ice Cream Scoop assembly modeled in Inventor R4.
This would make an excellent class project. The handle is created
using lofts. Zip files include an avi simulating mechanical motion.
Excellent teaching tool for teaching drive constraints.
Model is an ice cream scoop purchased for 99 cents at Longs Drugs store.
Pdf Creator - Free pdf creator. Allows you to create pdf files without Adobe Exchange. This is shareware.
Flying Toaster Screensaver with an Autodesk flair
Autodesk's Jellyfish screensaver - created with Inventor
These tools are for R14 and below. ADT3.3 readers can also use these tools for the tutorial in my ADT3.3 Fundamentals text. AutoCAD2004 now includes a version of the Express Tools for free. Do not load these tools into 2002 or above as you may not get the desired results!
User can select an xref and will open the external reference for editing. A2K
cth.zip Thanks to John Kuba
Allows user to set all text in a drawing to the same text height. Works in R14, A2K and beyond, does not affect MTEXT or attributes
bset.zip Thanks to Teri Hawn
Scale blocks in a drawing by specifying the scale and a selection set of blocks.
The user selects an Excel spreadsheet. The user selects where the spreadsheet data should be inserted. This routine creates a block consisting of text and lines from the data automatically. The code is open, so you can see how it is done. There is a readme help included that provides guidelines to get good results.
matt.zip Thanks to Normand Lalonde
Moves all the attributes for all the blocks in a drawing to a user specified layer
Match attributes or text to a specific text style