Whats New on the Moon

1st Jan 2009. IntelliCAD utilities brought back along with the 2001 free version of IntelliCAD itself for download.

23rd July 2008. Notified by used of a problem with downloading files, this problem has now been fixed and all files can be downloaded successfully.

8th July 2008. Seems to have been problems with text sizes and pages. General update to look. New Items planned. Thinking of re-introducing a forum page, coments on this invited.

10th Oct 2007 - There seem to have been some problems with missing lisp files. This problem has now been addressed and hopefilly there should be no more problems on this front.

GOOD NEWS for LT USERS Big news for LT a site user has recently brought to my attention a new program I had not come across before, ToolboxLT 2007 from GloabCAD, this actually enables LT users to use Autolisp routines. Such as all the stuff on this site. Got to the LT-kec link above to see details about this.

There may be updates to come, these will be mostly by request I can now update where necessary to Acad 2004. I will still however continue to answer questions best I can and keep looking through my database of lisp files from time to time to see if there are any other utilities might be worth putting up on the site.

First the look has changed giving better links from all the pages.

The main update is to the lisp functions file, a much larger group of separate lisp functions has been added (51). This has been done so users may just install the odd item they require rather than a whole package. Some of the items do not even appear in the packages.

The second basic update is that all the lisp functions are now in plain text. All the lisp files in all groups of files are now open code. This includes the main group files and the update menu files. This is so that any adjustments for later versions of AutoCAD can be made without having to go to the trouble of decrypting them. (We know who you are).

When you download a utility in is contained in a Zip file. This file will contain the main function and any necessary blocks the routine requires. These files must be unzipped into the AutoCAD main directory or on the AutoCAD search path. Open this lisp file in a text editor. (notepad) and read any instructions which will be at the beginning of the file. This is the type of thing you will see.

********** SINGLE WALL ROUTINES *******************
Nine routines all in this file :- Kwalopen.lsp these are for making openings
in single walls and placing the following in the opening
1. plain openings (kopen)
2. existing windows (kexwin)
3. window frame only (kexfrm) 4. normal window (kwin)
5. single door (kdoor)
6. double doors (kddoor)
7. single wall (kswall)
8. tidy up corner (kcorner)
9. tidy up 'T' junction (kjunct)
written by A.J.Kemp update Oct 2001 new routine with select on walls

....rest of lisp file......

To use the function do the following :-
In the command line type (load " name of the lisp file ")
in the above case this will be
(load "Kwalopen.lsp") the routine will the load into memory.

To start the function type in at the command line the utility function name.
This is usually the name of the file in a single function routine.
In the above case it will be: 'Kwalopen'
In a routine with more than one function as above the name of the sub function will be seen in the file at the top ( as seen in the text editor) given in brackets.

You can also make a button to operate the utility automatically by setting up a button and using - (load "lisp name");function name, in the command box.