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   Hello, I have been producing mapbooks using CAD 3D 2009 for a short while. 
On my key maps I show the map book in tiles. In the center of these tiles I manually insert a number as a presentaion purpose. However this is very time consuming and prone to error.

I found and downloaded from your site the Lisp InsertC.

I tried using it but, the truth is that I lack the experience in CAD to make this work.

Do I have to make the tiles into blocks? If so how do I do that?
As far as I can see the tiles are polyline objects.

Any suggestions or help would be very much appreciated.

thank you very much.

Fred

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fbastian Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 27.May.2009 Location: Australia Status: Offline Points: 5	Topic: incremental numbers into mapbook tiles Posted: 27.May.2009 at 11:23
	Hello, I have been producing mapbooks using CAD 3D 2009 for a short while. On my key maps I show the map book in tiles. In the center of these tiles I manually insert a number as a presentaion purpose. However this is very time consuming and prone to error. I found and downloaded from your site the Lisp InsertC. I tried using it but, the truth is that I lack the experience in CAD to make this work. Do I have to make the tiles into blocks? If so how do I do that? As far as I can see the tiles are polyline objects. Any suggestions or help would be very much appreciated. thank you very much. Fred

msplcdykee69 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 15.Dec.2008 Location: United States Using: Civil 3D, Map, Inventor, Mechanical, & Electrical Status: Offline Points: 163	Posted: 29.May.2009 at 17:32
	Here is a simple lisp called LOTNO Copy this lisp routine below into a text file and just make sure you have a text size you have selected as current is the size it becomes You can select the text style under your toolbar "Styles". This is a simple auto numbering lisp routine ;Lotno.lsp ;This is a program to insert incremented lot numbers ;using current text. (defun lotn ( / p p1 p2 n1 scmde) (setq n1 (getint "Enter starting lot number: ")) (setq p1 (getpoint "\nText location: ")) (setq scmde (getvar "cmdecho")) (while p1 (setvar "cmdecho" 0) (setq p2 p1) (if (= 0.0 (cdr (assoc 40 (tblsearch "style" (getvar "textstyle"))))) (command "text" "J" "MC" (setq p p1) (setq p "") (setq p "") (setq p n1) ) (command "text" "J" "MC" (setq p p1) (setq p "") (setq p n1) ) );if (setq n1 (+ n1 1)) (setq p1 (getpoint "\nText location: ")) (if (= p1 p2) (setq p1 nil)) ) (setvar "cmdecho" scmde) (princ) ) (defun C:LOTNO () (lotn) ) (princ "Type LOTNO to begin.") (princ)
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fbastian Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 27.May.2009 Location: Australia Status: Offline Points: 5	Posted: 01.Jun.2009 at 04:57
	Hi, I tried by saving the code as a lsp file and then uploading it into the CAD file. I could see the propmt "type lotno to begin" but when i typed 2 it gave me "unknown command". I need to understand how to run lsp files onto the current CAD file. I must be doing something wrong. can you help me further please? There isnt a space for attaching files here otherwise i would so you can see what i am talking about. Thanks for your help.

Vladimir Michl Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Visit Members Homepage Add to Buddy List Moderator Group Arkance Systems CZ Joined: 26.Jul.2007 Location: Czech Republic Using: Autodesk software Status: Offline Points: 2118	Posted: 01.Jun.2009 at 07:39
	You should type "lotno" (verbatim, the command name) to start the command. If you have Express Tools installed, you can also use the TCOUNT command. Our InsertC can be used also but you should have a block with an attribute to be used as the counter label.
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