The AutoCADET's Guide to Visual LISP

by Bill Kramer

Overview

AutoCADet: A person who uses AutoCAD directly or indirectly to create or analyze graphic images and is in possession of one or more of the following traits: wants to learn; has an interest in improving the way AutoCAD works; is a visionary AutoCAD user; i

Customize AutoCAD to include productivity enhancements like new commands, combinations of existing commands or list processing scripts to store and manipulate data. This tutorial offers a complete introduction to the Visual LISP language, environment and editor. Advanced topics include data manipulation and programming dialog boxes.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781578200894
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	01/12/2001
Series:	Cadence Masters Series
Edition description:	BK&CD-ROM
Pages:	266
Product dimensions:	8.25(w) x 11.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Bill Kramer is a computer scientist with 20+ years experience in CAD systems. He is a leading authority on AutoCAD customization regularly leading tutorial presentations at Autodesk University, and contributing articles to industry publications, including his 'Programmer's Toolbox' column in Cadence magazine. In addition to writing for Cadence since its inception in 1986, Bill is the author of AutoLISP Treasure Chest and co-author of AutoCAD VBA Programming Tools and Techniques. Bill has recently taken time away from his duties as president of Auto-Code Mechanical to organize and lead the popular CAD-Cruise for programming and system management training.

Table of Contents

Introduction and Acknowledgements; Section 1: Getting Started; 1. Understanding Visual LISP; 2. Introducing the Visual LISP IDE; 3. The Essence of Visual LISP; Section 2: Working with Visual LISP; 4. Working with Strings of Characters; 5. Working with Numbers; 6. Converting Between Numbers and Strings; 7. Conditionals and Loops; 8. Working with Lists; Section 3: Visual LISP and the User; 9. Basic User Output; 10. Basic User Input; 11. Introduction to Dialog Boxes; Section 4: The AutoCAD Interface; 12. Working with AutoCAD Drawings; 13. Selection Sets; 14. Tables; 15. Extra Data; 16. AutoCAD Interface Programming; 17. Working with Complex Objects; 18. Event Programming - Reactors; Section 5: The Computer Interface; 19. Working with the Computer; 20. More Features of the VLIDE