Topic: Lisp to start a acad function

[Anton]

Hi,

In Acad2002 there is a function in a (tools?) pulldown menu to extract attributes.
Is there a way to call this function with a lisp file?

The goal is to run a lisp file, and at a certain point to start that other lisp file to extract attributes.

I'm a newbie to lisp programming and this should be very easy to you, but for me it's really ?

Please help!

Anton

[SMadsen]

Hi Anton,
Welcome to theSwamp forums.

I can't remember if EATTEXT was part of A2K2, but if so then you can just call it as any other built-in command.

If you're referring to Express Tools' ATTOUT command then it's based on an AutoLISP routine with the command prefix "C:".
You can call it from within your own AutoLISP routine with (C:ATTOUT).

For example

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(defun runMyAttExtraction (/ attm)
  ;; do something ... e.g.
  (setq attm (getvar "ATTMODE"))
  (setvar "ATTMODE" 2)
  ;; call ET's ATTOUT
  (C:ATTOUT)
  ;; do something else ... e.g.
  (setvar "ATTMODE" attm)
)

[JohnK]

Hi Anton, Welcome.

[Anton]

Hi,

As an old cadalog forumuser I switched over to this board.
I love to see all those names again who helped me the early days.

I think I will still need some help with lots of things.
Somebody has to ask questions, right?

Thanks again!

[Keith™]

yeppers...