Good day,
I am new to lisp and opendcl so please bear with me. Also I am a cabinet maker, not a programmer.
I started in the opendcl forums, and they also directed me here.(
http://www.opendcl.com/forum/index.php?topic=1951.0)
Basically I am trying to make a palette that will help me export a Dwg or Dxf from autocad to another program(Biesseworks). Biesseworks has an importer, but I need to bring points in as parametric. The output can be a txt file, so I am not to worried about creating that half just yet.
Where I am stuck atm is that I have a combobox that selects all the layers. I need to populate a listbox with all entities on said layer. Also I am realizing two things(other then my complete lack of knowledge of ActiveX and Lisp):
- I have to figure out to either use a listbox with checkboxes in it, or as you can see from my ODCL I will upload, use radio buttons on the side. I am guessing I would have to generate a variable or attach a custom dxf code onto each entity and work with that. The output will just be a text file that has the points written as parametric, biesseworks can figure itself out from there.
- LWpolylines and polylines don't seem to report as individual entities, so I need a way to grab each start and end point in them, and either centres or radius of curves. I am fairly certain that this can be done with an If statement concerning entity types.
So step one atm is to just get the listbox populate and worry about the rest as each piece comes up. I can't get it to do that. I can get either a list to generate of names, but not be strings, or as I have it right now, well it isn't much...
Hope not to noob for these forums, thanks
Jordan