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Why every AutoCAD CAD Manager should have a copy of BricsCAD – part 1, fixing drawings

By Steve Johnson 7 June 2018, 4:50 pm 7 June 2018 itemprop="discussionURL"2

Here’s a mega-tip with a lot of experience behind it: As a CAD Manager looking after AutoCAD users, or a power user looking after yourself, it’s worth your while to have a copy of BricsCAD handy. Why? There are too many reasons to fit in one blog post, so I’m going to do a mini-series. The first post is about using BricsCAD to fix up drawings that are giving your AutoCAD users problems. One of the things that surprised me most when evaluating BricsCAD as a potential replacement for AutoCAD was that my expectations were wrong when it came to …

AutoCAD, BricsCAD, Bug, CAD Management, Development, LISP, Tip, ZWCAD

Why digitally sign your LISP files?

By Steve Johnson 11 February 2018, 10:20 pm 11 February 2018 itemprop="discussionURL"4

After I mentioned in an earlier post that I had digitally signed the sample LISP file I had provided, this generated some interest. In this post, I’ll explain why you might want to sign your LISP files. In a later post, I’ll explain how to do it. These days it is standard practice for developers to digitally sign their code. Operating systems and applications are displaying increasingly scary warnings when coming across unsigned code. Here is an example of the sort of message you get when you load an unsigned LISP file into AutoCAD from a location that has not …

AutoCAD, BricsCAD, Development, Interoperability, LISP, Tip, Video, ZWCAD

Setting your application or document window size using LISP

By Steve Johnson 10 February 2018, 7:10 pm 11 February 2018 itemprop="discussionURL"1

I intend to produce a few videos containing tips, tutorials, product comparisons and the like. I’ve set up a cad nauseam YouTube channel, but don’t bother visiting it yet because it’s empty. One of the things I need to do for these videos make sure I’m capturing the screen at an appropriate resolution. I knocked up a bit of Visual LISP to take care of this task quickly and accurately, and you might as well have it. It’s a simple routine that allows you to accurately size either the main AutoCAD application window or the current document window (drawing area) …