MP - I wandered through the help files, saw (vl-load-com) and guessed that it would serve. I pasted it into the vlax I got here and she ran. So, I sent THAT to my friend. thanks. this was the first time I had used that particular command.
gile - thanks for the link to your code. plainly, I have not had enough time to appreciate it fully. I will take that time. when I get out of this chair, this afternoon I am chauffeuring my two youngest to French class(es). as I look through your code, I will see if we can read your comments in their original form.
Matt - your one word means nothing to me. perhaps the fact that I am running Autocad 2000 like it came out of the box has a lot to do with that. Autocad 2009, I have a copy I have access to at the "branch office", but I have not needed it yet. so I remain ignorant of any particulars. of Revit, I got another friend to take one of his files and export to gbXML so that I could use it to reverse engineer and to write lisp to write to gbXML. specifically, a destination program is HAP. Revit uses undocumented tags, or I do not have the most current schema.
thanks again guys.
and as I hit the POST button, I see I have two more replies. THANK YOU ALL, AND I WILL REVIEW EVERY HELPFUL COMMENT AS SOON AS I RETURN.
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