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AutoCAD Platform Customization

AutoLISP
By Lee Ambrosius
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AutoCAD Platform Customization: AutoLISP empowers users to tailor and enhance their experience with AutoCAD and related software such as Civil 3D and Plant 3D. Through practical examples, it guides readers on modifying graphical objects, managing system variables, and integrating with external applications. The book includes useful features like a resources appendix and downloadable datasets to facilitate hands-on learning and quick implementation.

Readers will learn to optimise their workflow by removing unused ribbon buttons, creating handy macros, branding drawings, and executing advanced customisations like database communication to verify and update drawing data.
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Ideal for CAD administrators, senior drafters, experienced users, professionals, and students eager to personalise and optimise AutoCAD platform workflows using AutoLISP scripting.

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Customize and personalise programs built on the AutoCAD platform

AutoLISP is the key to unlocking the secrets of a more streamlined experience using industry-leading software programs like AutoCAD, Civil 3D, Plant 3D, and more.

AutoCAD Platform Customization: AutoLISP provides real-world examples that show you how to do everything from modifying graphical objects and reading and setting system variables to communicating with external programs. It also features a resources appendix and downloadable datasets and customisation examples—tools that ensure swift and easy adoption.

  • Find out how to remove unused buttons from the ribbon to gain screen space.
  • Discover how to create macros for frequently performed actions, or add your company's logo to the bottom of every drawing.
  • Learn to perform more involved customisations, like communicating with a database to validate and update information entered in drawing layers.
  • Ideal for CAD administrators, senior drafters, savvy users, and other professionals and students.

Through detailed discussions and tutorials that include real-world examples, this book gives you the power to enhance your program's experience and output.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781118798812

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 19 October 2015

Country: United States

Imprint: Sybex Inc.,U.S.

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 25.0mm

Width: 185.0mm

Height: 231.0mm

Weight: 703g

Pages: 432

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Computing & Technology Education & Reference Lee Ambrosius Non-Fiction

About the Author

Lee Ambrosius is a Principal Learning Content Developer at Autodesk for AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT products and has worked on end-user and API documentation for nine releases. He has presented customization and programming sessions at Autodesk University for a decade, and has authored and edited several AutoCAD-related books. Follow him on twitter at @leeambrosius.

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