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steelworx 
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 Topic: ASCPOINT LSP - Importing elevations as attribute
Posted: 18.Jan.2013 at 13:52 |
The ASCPOINT LSP works great at importing points into AutoCAD but when I try and import the elevation as the attribute I am having some major annoyances. Using 358147.369,4982842.266,110.349,110.349 as an example where ASCPOINT requires X,Y,Z,attribute and "110.349 should be displayed as the text on the block but I either get "110.349000000" if imported as shown above or if I add another character like "358147.369,4982842.266,110.349,EL110.349" then it will only show the elevation before the decimal like "EL110" (missing the EL110."349" which is important information to display.) I have been importing it as "358147.369,4982842.266,110.349,110.349" and getting 110.349000000 and manually editing each block to remove the 000000 at the end. Is there any way to edit ASCPOINT to import elevations as the attribute without these 000000 at the end?  ASCPOINT: http://www.cadforum.cz/cadforum_en/tips.asp?t=ascpoint
Edited by steelworx - 18.Jan.2013 at 13:52
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Vladimir Michl
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Posted: 18.Jan.2013 at 14:18 |
Unfortunately there is no easy solution for either of these two problems in ASCPOINT.
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CarlB
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Posted: 18.Jan.2013 at 17:45 |
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Two possibilities-
Revise the lisp. Should be fairly straightforward (but I don't know the routine you are using). The lisp has to read the elevation, as text, from a file, convert it to a number to give the point a z value, and apparently convert that real to a string to place it in the attribute. It could use a precision othe than 6 decimal places when converting. Or it could use the initially read string to place in the attribute.
Two, use another list to revise all selected point inserts to display number of decimals you specify.
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CarlB
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Posted: 19.Jan.2013 at 02:17 |
I made some lisp modifications that seem to work for your particular case. It's not a "robust" solution that handles all variations. It displays elevations to 3 decimal places. If you know a little about editing lisp, it involves replace a the defun "toSym" in ASCPOINT.LSP with the following:
(defun toSym (s) ; VM
(cond
((eq (type s) 'SYM)
(vl-symbol-name s)
)
((eq (type s) 'REAL)
(rtos s 2 3)
)
((eq (type s) 'INT)
(rtos s 2 0)
)
((not s) "")
(T s)
)
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Vladimir Michl
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Posted: 19.Jan.2013 at 14:59 |
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Or better yet - we have used a more general line parser and generalized ASCPOINT.LSP (covering both mentioned problems) is now available for download on the Download page.
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Miche11e
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Posted: 01.Mar.2013 at 09:02 |
I have tried it and it works well, however I can't get my attribute to show. It remains 0.00  
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Torban
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Posted: 25.Aug.2013 at 20:18 |
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Vladimir,
Using the ASCPOINT.lisp
I have tried everything I can think of to get the attributes to come in but it's just not happening!!
XYZ no problem and it inserts the other points with a block at each one but does not update the attribute field???
I have a block with a sphere and one attdef with name pnum, noting in the prompt and 000-00 for the default and that is what gets put into all the attribute labels (it doesn't update them!!)
Any ideas??
Tom
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Torban
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Posted: 25.Aug.2013 at 20:20 |
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Michelle,
Did you ever solve this problem??
Tom
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Torban
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Posted: 27.Aug.2013 at 14:42 |
Is there anyone that can help me with this??  Tom
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John Connor
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Posted: 27.Aug.2013 at 15:39 |
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A REGEN doesn't force an update?
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