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General discussion about BabaCAD / No reading Layout of ACAD14+2000

« on: April 25, 2016, 07:06:47 am »

Hello,

Tested to open some DWG from ACAD 14 or 2000 format.
It fails to read the layout.
This is big fail in terms of DWG-compatibility.
If needed I can send testfile by mail.

Regards
Hans-Peter

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General discussion about BabaCAD / Button Ellipse and Constuktionline does not work

« on: April 24, 2016, 06:54:05 pm »

Hello,

Button Ellipse and Construktionline does not work.

Regards
Hans-Peter

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General discussion about BabaCAD / Viewport has no geometry fields in property window

« on: April 24, 2016, 06:49:55 pm »

Hello,

Viewport has no geometry fields in property window?
Would be usefull to be able to edit the edges.

Regards
Hans-Peter

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General discussion about BabaCAD / How can I make viewport borders invisible ?

« on: April 24, 2016, 06:29:48 pm »

Hello,

How can I make viewport borders invisible ?
I tried to place them on their own layer and make it hidden, but no success.

Regards
Hans-Peter

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General discussion about BabaCAD / Zoom scale in viewport does not show current scale faktor

« on: April 24, 2016, 06:19:46 pm »

Hello,

Zoom scale in viewport does not show current scale Faktor. It Show 0.0 even when Prior set to 1.

Regards
Hans-Peter

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General discussion about BabaCAD / Should paperspace background reflect printer setup of paper

« on: April 24, 2016, 06:05:58 pm »

Hello,

The paperspace Background Show a Kind of paper border.
But when I Change the Printer Setup from portrait to landscape nothing Change.
Printer preview Show it different.

Regards
Hans-Peter

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General discussion about BabaCAD / Cannot draw in paperspace

« on: April 24, 2016, 05:59:56 pm »

Hello,

When I try to draw lines in paperspace, they get not drawn.

Would be necessary to draw some Formular around the viewports.

Edit: Wrong post. I can draw in papperspace, but paperspace line does not recognise layer visibility.


Regards
Hans-Peter

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General discussion about BabaCAD / Switching between viewports and entsel viewports

« on: April 24, 2016, 05:45:09 pm »

Hello,

I am further testing on my tablet and create a second viewport.
But now I find no way to Switch to the first viewport.
In the help file I find nothing about choosing the active viewport.

Another Lisp Problem with viewport:  (entget(car(entsel))) does not work with viewport-rectangle.

Regards
Hans-Peter

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General discussion about BabaCAD / Option for larger toolbar-button/icons

« on: April 24, 2016, 03:06:08 pm »

Hello,

You might consider to Support an Option for larger toolbar Icons.
Currently you have 16x16 Pixel Icons, so a second size might be 32x32.
On today's Displays the Icons can look relativ small.

Regards
Hans-Peter

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General discussion about BabaCAD / Commandline options?

« on: April 24, 2016, 02:43:03 pm »

Hello,

Is there Support for commandline Parameters?

First would be a dxf/dwg filename to load.
The second wish would be a scr-file like in Acad (I read somewhere that you think about a macro-feature)
Scr (Script-file) was one of the first Options to automate Acad in early days. Still usefull today.
By mixing Scr and Lsp I had once setup a bot-drawing-pc.
You can also think of introducing a template-option for creating a new drawing and make this accessible by commandline.

Regards
Hans-Peter

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General discussion about BabaCAD / Running Babacad from Stick

« on: April 24, 2016, 12:38:11 pm »

Hello,

Just tried to run Babacad from an USB-Stick on my Win7 tablet.
It starts fast and run fine without any install.
However I noticed the same delay on Startup.
The pur loading seems fast and also the Lisp-Demos seems to load fast (load-messages)
But then is a delay in entering the main-Loop.

Regards
Hans-Peter

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General discussion about BabaCAD / Lispedit with shellexecute instead of notepad

« on: April 24, 2016, 12:13:20 pm »

Hello,

Lispedit seems to be hardcoded to notepad.exe
You should better perform a shellexecute on the lsp-file to open the editor which is configured in OS to open when doubleclicked.

Regards

Hans-Peter

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General discussion about BabaCAD / Modified lsp-demo files

« on: April 24, 2016, 12:00:58 pm »

Hello,

A few improvments to the demo lsp files

gear.lsp

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(defun c:gear(/ R cp np t h a0 aoff tmpecho)
 (setq tmpecho (getvar "cmdecho"))
 (setvar "cmdecho" 0)
 (setq cp (getpoint "Specify gear center: ")
       R (getdist "Specify radius: ")
       t (getint "Enter number of teeths: ")
       h (getdist "Specify teeth height: ")
 )
 (command "circle" cp R)
 (setq R (+ R h ))
 (command "circle" cp R)
 (setq R (+ R (* 2 h)))
 (print R)
 (setq aoff (/ (* pi 2) t)
       a0 0
       np (polar cp a0 R)
 )
 (print np)
 (repeat t
  (command "pline" cp np "")
  (setq a0 (+ a0 aoff)
        np (polar cp a0 R)
  )
  (print "")
 )
 (setvar "cmdecho" tmpecho)
 (princ)
)
(princ "Gear.lsp by Mirza Coralic. Type GEAR to start.")
cmdecho seems not to be supported really.

DrawExtent.lsp

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(defun c:drawextent(/ en ext)
 (setq en (car (entsel))
       ext (bc-entext en)
 )
 (command "rectangle" (list (car ext) (cadr ext)) (list (nth 2 ext)(nth 3 ext)))
 (print "Entity extent: ")
 (princ ext)
 (princ)
)
(princ "DrawExtent.lsp by Mirza Coralic. Type DRAWEXTENT to start.")

chcolor.lsp

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(defun c:chcolor (/ colr ss en ind)
 (setq colr (getint "Enter color index number (0-255): ")
       ss (ssget)
       ind 0
 )
 (while (setq en (entget (ssname ss ind)))
  (setq en (append en (list (cons 62 colr))))
  (entmod en)
  (setq ind (+ ind 1))
 )
 (princ)
)
(princ "chcolor.lsp by Mirza Coralic. Type chcolor to start.")

Joining multiple setq to one should increase performance.

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General discussion about BabaCAD / Configure option to place custom toolbar

« on: April 24, 2016, 11:31:32 am »

Hello,

In the bcad.mnu file there is this Toolbar definition:

***TOOLBAR,LISP examples,lispexamples.bmp
43100,drawextent
43101,chcolor
43102,gear

Add an option to place the custom tollbar to a defined place.
Bordername or XPOS/YPOS or other

And an option to store all Positions in a INI-file after moving them by mouse.
And then restore on startup.

Regards

Hans-Peter

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General discussion about BabaCAD / Show Statup end

« on: April 24, 2016, 11:24:01 am »

Hello,

When I start Babacad on my relatic old XP-PC it needs some time to start its Mainloop (mean gets responsive to mouse-action)
So how about a message in command area "Babacad is started" and a blinking textcursor in commandline to see that it is waiting for user input.
And do not show the graphical crosshair cursor before it is ready to move!

PS: First impression is that Babacad feels like a very young ACAD prior to R14. So room for improvment! ;-)

Regards

Hans-Peter