Topic: Software to allow Lisps in LT?

[MP]

Dude let go of that dream, it will never happen.

[craigr]

Are they in model space or paper space?

Here's what I would do.

Get a directory listing of the drawings.
Open it in Excel to create my script.
Assuming that the page number is also in the file name...
- open file, edit text (drawing / sheet number) add page number, save as new filename in different location.
Does that sound doable?

I am not following this part.

[M-dub]

Argh... I REALLY wish I had more time to get into this, but I can't today... not until next week.  I have to work somewhere else tomorrow and Friday, so I have a lot of stuff to do today.

That is the part that would be done in the script, anyway.

[Dinosaur]

Your boss needs to take a real close look at the Intellicad clones like Bricscad.  They are excellent cad packages that will read and write .dwg files the same as AutoCAD.  The last I saw, they were missing only a few commands from the full 3-D capable, lisp/arx using standard AutoCAD for less money than LT.  They did not have some of the later features like fields at that point, but I am not sure what the newest version has included.  Daniel could give a better rundown than I of the current version.  Bottom line is that it looks, runs and does the same work that full AutoCAD offers at a much more afffordable price.

[LE3]

do not know if you can do this, but you can become an adn member for the standard membership you will pay 1,350 a year, and can use virtually all autodesk software via download.

or do not know if the subscription might also be less expensive.

[MP]

Your boss needs to take a real close look at the Intellicad clones like Bricscad.  They are excellent cad packages that will read and write .dwg files the same as AutoCAD.  The last I saw, they were missing only a few commands from the full 3-D capable, lisp/arx using standard AutoCAD for less money than LT.  They did not have some of the later features like fields at that point, but I am not sure what the newest version has included.  Daniel could give a better rundown than I of the current version.  Bottom line is that it looks, runs and does the same work that full AutoCAD offers at a much more afffordable price.

times one million

[craigr]

One large problem with BrisCAD or any other CAD prgs, is that we have outside Engineers that put it right in the Construction Spec that our dwgs must be AutoCAD Rev ###.

Even though other CAD prgs write to a .dwg file, I am concerned about them meeting Spec.

But then again, I wonder if we bought just ONE version of LT and saved the BrisCAD files with AutoCAD software. Would this erase all traces of the 'BrisCAD'?

But, I feel pretty confident that we will never deviate from AutoDesk.

craigr

[It's Alive!]

Wow! I don't see how people can live without Lisp/C++ APIs....doing things the hard way..

[craigr]

Wow! I don't see how people can live without Lisp/C++ APIs....doing things the hard way..

Do things the hard way or not at all.

I get excited when I think of something new to automate, only to discover that it cannot be done with a macro / scripts.

Oh well, that is why the Full version is sooooo expensive.

craigr

[MP]

To be honest your company has lost far more in productivity than the cost of one full seat of autocad, whether or not ya'll recognize it. No hate, just sayin', myopia -- your company has it.

[M-dub]

Yeah, in my opinion, I think it would be worth buying ONE full license and keeping it around for these opportunities.  In theory, you shouldn't have to upgrade it all THAT often... once every 6 years would probably be alright, as long as you keep your LT's up-to-date.

That could be one option, anyway.

[craigr]

To be honest your company has lost far more in productivity than the cost of one full seat of autocad, whether or not ya'll recognize it. No hate, just sayin', myopia -- your company has it.

I have a tough enough time getting them to updated LT more often than ever 3 years or so. I can't see ever getting them to upgrade all 10 licenses to the Full version for $4000.

[MP]

To be honest your company has lost far more in productivity than the cost of one full seat of autocad, whether or not ya'll recognize it. No hate, just sayin', myopia -- your company has it.

I have a tough enough time getting them to updated LT more often than ever 3 years or so. I can't see ever getting them to upgrade all 10 licenses to the Full version for $4000.

wut

[craigr]

Oops, forgot the extra '0'.

[M-dub]

Get ONE seat of Full AutoCAD with a network license.  Install it on X number of computers and have a daily arm wrestle to see who gets to use it.    Everyone else gets LT.