
Let it be for few seconds and it'll close by itself. Note: When AutoCAD is closing, maybe your VisualLISP window will hold for a while, don't try to activate it.
#AUTOCAD LISP PROGRAM CODE#
Try it with nil too, you'll see that VisualLISP will be the active window, locking your AutoCAD to execute the next commands (and so you'll need to click somewhere in AutoCAD to activate its window and make the code to run properly). It's not documented and I've found it because I know AutoLISP has a lot of undocumented functions. The trick in that code is the (C:VLIDE T).

IT'S IMPORTANT TO HAVE THE LAST LINE EMPTY () THERE'S A SAFE LOCK IN QUIT COMMAND, SO SAVE A DUMMY FILE AND QUIT AGAIN WITH IT SAVED

(princ (vl-catch-all-error-message errobj)) (princ "\n***ERROR COMPILING SOMETHING***\n") (setq errobj (vl-catch-all-apply 'function-which-will-use-vlisp-make-project-fas)) YOU NEED VLISP OPEN TO LOAD VLISP-* FUNCTIONS scr file: MAKE VLISP OPEN BUT LET AUTOCAD ACTIVE. The /b stands for the script you'll run: "C:\Program Files\Autodesk\AutoCAD 2019\acad.exe" "C:\somefolder\dummy.dwg" /nologo /nossm /b "C:\somefolder\CompileLispProjects.scr" While many people jumped into AutoCAD LISP programming, and came to make respectable programs often through many hours, sometimes on their own time, and I speak knowingly, spent documenting, interacting with other people on the Internet, reading books on the subject, to acquire basic knowledge of the.
#AUTOCAD LISP PROGRAM SOFTWARE#
Autodesk, the creators of the worlds leading CAD software AutoCAD, included the LISP programming as customization option since its release 2.1 in the year 1986. You'll need an empty drawing, call it dummy.dwg. LISP (from wikipedia) is the second-oldest high-level programming language in widespread use today (Originally specified in 1958) only Fortran is older (by one year). PLEASE Let me know!Īfter some tests here I could finally make it a bit more faster and easy to use.Īt command line, call autocad with some startup switches. The Visual LISP editor must be open to compile, The compile will only happen when window activation occurs. It should open AutoCAD and build all of your LSP files into a single.
#AUTOCAD LISP PROGRAM INSTALL#
Next you will need to Download and install AutoHotKeyĪnd build a script like this for it: Run, BuildLisp.bat It starts AutoCAD and runs the specified script Then make a batch file that contains this: offĬd c:\Program Files\Autodesk\AutoCAD 2014 Programming language allows extracting inputting values with regard to objects, data or positional information, LISP is uniquely suited for unstructured design process of AutoCAD projects. (strcat (getenv "UserProfile") "\\Documents\\AutocadFiles\\CompiledLisp.fas") It is a full-featured, interpretive programming language that you can use to call AutoCAD commands, system variables, and dialog boxes. AutoCAD 2016 A Brief History of AutoLISP and Its Functionality. (strcat (getenv "UserProfile") "\\Documents\\AutocadFiles\\gui.lsp")) If you do find some documentation please let me know!) vlide (Note that vlisp-compile-list is not documented anywhere.

I will be demonstrating with Autocad 2014.įirst you will need to make an Autocad Script file that contains some undocumented commands. Be warned this is a bit of a Rube Goldberg.
