Topic: copy layout macro

[ELOQUINTET]

hey guys i used to have a macro button to copy a layout tab but my acad got wiped out awhile back. i know it's on here somewhere but don't have time to look right now heeeeeeelp

[Darryl]

On the "Layouts" toolbar, there is a button called "Layout from template."  I use it a lot to copy current layouts into an older drawing.  Don't know if that's what you had in mind or not - it's a start.

[ELOQUINTET]

not really what i'm looking for darryl

[daron]

...but thanks for the reply. Dan, I can't think of anything else you'd be doing than what Darryl posted. Who created the macro for you? What else did it do?

[hendie]

I think it was me... it was just a simple lisp asking how many layouts to create, then asked for a prefix/suffix etc
I think I still have a copy of it at work. and I'm working on a VBA dialogue version to manipulate layouts
I'll post the lisp when I get back to work

[hyposmurf]

Just had a play around this seems to work:
^C^C(COMMAND "-LAYOUT""COPY""LAYOUT1""ELOQUINTET" )
Will copy LAYOUT 1 and rename it ELOQUINTET.You can just substitute those names for what you want.

[hendie]

I believe this is what you are looking for

[ML]

Why don't you just right click on a layout tab in the same drawing and choose copy?


Mark

[hendie]

because it's a very cumbersome method. then you have to right-click again to rename it, and/or change position

[ML]

Hendie

Keith created a really cool delte layout tabs project in VBA, it has  a little dialog box and all. May be it could be tweeked slightly to do copying of layout tabs for you?

May be you could e-mail Keith?

Mark