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   <title><![CDATA[Macro : Thank you again. As you pointed...]]></title>
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    <![CDATA[<strong>Author:</strong> <a href="https://www.cadforum.cz/forum_en/member_profile.asp?PF=537129">stpierre6153</a><br /><strong>Subject:</strong> 10989<br /><strong>Posted:</strong> 24.Feb.2015 at 19:44<br /><br />Thank you again. As you pointed out with regard to hitting Z enter invokes the zoom, window I know that........ The PITA with not being able to invoke two commands with one enter is my issue. with 30+ years the hand movement is ingrained.<div><br></div><div>Thank you anyway.</div>]]>
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   <title><![CDATA[Macro :   stpierre6153 wrote:Thanks for...]]></title>
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    <![CDATA[<strong>Author:</strong> <a href="https://www.cadforum.cz/forum_en/member_profile.asp?PF=353260">Kent Cooper</a><br /><strong>Subject:</strong> 10989<br /><strong>Posted:</strong> 20.Feb.2015 at 17:37<br /><br /><table width="99%"><tr><td class="BBquote"><img src="forum_images/quote_box.png" title="Originally posted by stpierre6153" alt="Originally posted by stpierre6153" style="vertical-align: text-bottom;" /> <strong>stpierre6153 wrote:</strong><br /><br />Thanks for the input; however i do not want to put the macros into a button format. I would like to able to do a keyboard input.</td></tr></table> <DIV></DIV><DIV></DIV><DIV></DIV><DIV></DIV><DIV>&nbsp;</DIV><DIV>Defining/(defun)ing them as commands for keyboard&nbsp;input of&nbsp;command names is&nbsp;simply not an option in LT,&nbsp;lacking AutoLisp capability.&nbsp; But as John Connor has suggested, at least in&nbsp;some of your examples,&nbsp;it's not much more work to just do them manually, e.g. to&nbsp;type Z &#091;Enter/space&#093; A &#091;Enter/space&#093; instead of&nbsp;your equivalent command name ZA &#091;Enter/space&#093;.&nbsp; And as I pointed out earlier, your W command can be just Z, since Zoom does the W option without specifying it, if you don't specify something else.&nbsp; Of course the simplicity of manual usage&nbsp;won't be true of a lot of other things you might want to shortcut -- John has already listed the options available to you.</DIV>]]>
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   <title><![CDATA[Macro : Options.1. Edit CUI.2. Use the...]]></title>
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    <![CDATA[<strong>Author:</strong> <a href="https://www.cadforum.cz/forum_en/member_profile.asp?PF=165260">John Connor</a><br /><strong>Subject:</strong> 10989<br /><strong>Posted:</strong> 20.Feb.2015 at 14:39<br /><br />Options.<br><br>1. Edit CUI.<br><br>2. Use the Action Recorder.<br><br>3. Use your fingers (ex. Z Enter A Enter).<br><br>4. Toolbar buttons.<br><br>5. Programmable mouse.<br><br>Pick one.<br><br>BTW...if you double click your mouse wheel AutoCAD will do a zoom &gt; extents which is almost as good as a zoom &gt; all.<br><span style="font-size:10px"><br /><br />Edited by John Connor - 20.Feb.2015 at 14:43</span>]]>
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   <title><![CDATA[Macro : Thanks for the input; however...]]></title>
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    <![CDATA[<strong>Author:</strong> <a href="https://www.cadforum.cz/forum_en/member_profile.asp?PF=537129">stpierre6153</a><br /><strong>Subject:</strong> 10989<br /><strong>Posted:</strong> 20.Feb.2015 at 14:00<br /><br />Thanks for the input; however i do not want to put the macros into a button format. I would like to able to do a keyboard input.]]>
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    <![CDATA[<strong>Author:</strong> <a href="https://www.cadforum.cz/forum_en/member_profile.asp?PF=413522">Robert_D</a><br /><strong>Subject:</strong> 10989<br /><strong>Posted:</strong> 17.Feb.2015 at 21:15<br /><br /><table width="99%"><tr><td class="BBquote"><img src="forum_images/quote_box.png" title="Originally posted by John Connor" alt="Originally posted by John Connor" style="vertical-align: text-bottom;" /> <strong>John Connor wrote:</strong><br /><br />...Maybe he can get a refund.</td></tr></table><font size="2">Depends on how "new" he is to LT. Only has 30 days. Don't know what the obligatory&nbsp;<span style="line-height: 16px;">Letter of Destruction entails.</span></font><div><font size="2">Cheers</font></div><span style="font-size:10px"><br /><br />Edited by Robert_D - 17.Feb.2015 at 21:16</span>]]>
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    <![CDATA[<strong>Author:</strong> <a href="https://www.cadforum.cz/forum_en/member_profile.asp?PF=165260">John Connor</a><br /><strong>Subject:</strong> 10989<br /><strong>Posted:</strong> 17.Feb.2015 at 19:33<br /><br />Too bad the OP already made the investment in LT 2015.&nbsp; Maybe he can get a refund.<br><span style="font-size:10px"><br /><br />Edited by John Connor - 17.Feb.2015 at 19:33</span>]]>
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   <title><![CDATA[Macro : Yet another alternative would...]]></title>
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    <![CDATA[<strong>Author:</strong> <a href="https://www.cadforum.cz/forum_en/member_profile.asp?PF=413522">Robert_D</a><br /><strong>Subject:</strong> 10989<br /><strong>Posted:</strong> 17.Feb.2015 at 19:17<br /><br />Yet another alternative would be to explore non-Autodesk products. i.e: Bricscad, Graeberts Ares Commander, ZWCad, and others. Lisp support (at much less than the cost of LT).]]>
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   <pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2015 19:17:27 +0000</pubDate>
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   <title><![CDATA[Macro : In the case of Zoom Window, you...]]></title>
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    <![CDATA[<strong>Author:</strong> <a href="https://www.cadforum.cz/forum_en/member_profile.asp?PF=353260">Kent Cooper</a><br /><strong>Subject:</strong> 10989<br /><strong>Posted:</strong> 17.Feb.2015 at 16:30<br /><br />In the case of Zoom Window, you don't need to program anything for that.&nbsp; The Zoom command operates in Window mode by default if you don't specify something else.<DIV></DIV><DIV></DIV><DIV></DIV><DIV></DIV><DIV></DIV><DIV></DIV><DIV></DIV><DIV></DIV><DIV>&nbsp;</DIV><DIV>Macros for the other examples would be dead simple, and would&nbsp;contain something as&nbsp;basic as:</DIV><DIV>&nbsp;</DIV><DIV>'ZOOM A</DIV><DIV>&nbsp;</DIV><DIV>'ZOOM P</DIV><DIV>&nbsp;</DIV><DIV>Note that often macros that you'll see around start with ^C^C, which is a double Cancel, to get you out of any command you might be in when you pick the&nbsp;menu item&nbsp;that contains the macro.&nbsp; But in the case of something like Zoom &#091;and certain other commands&#093;, which can be used <EM>transparently</EM>, you don't want to do that.&nbsp; As written above with the apostrophe prefix, you can use them <EM>in the middle of some other command</EM>, provided the resulting Zoom doesn't trigger a REGEN.</DIV>]]>
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   <title><![CDATA[Macro : Create macros. One way to do it...]]></title>
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    <![CDATA[<strong>Author:</strong> <a href="https://www.cadforum.cz/forum_en/member_profile.asp?PF=165260">John Connor</a><br /><strong>Subject:</strong> 10989<br /><strong>Posted:</strong> 16.Feb.2015 at 23:04<br /><br />Create macros.&nbsp; One way to do it would be to write your own.&nbsp; The other way to do it would be to use AutoCAD's action recorder feature.&nbsp; Record the steps you normally would take and when done save the macro for future playback.&nbsp; I've done this for a macro that will run a -purge on a drawing, then an audit followed by a zoom &gt; extents and finally a save.<br><br>By the way, if you create your own macro you could assign it to a button and place it on a toolbar.&nbsp; Click on the button and the macro is invoked.<br><br>Another option might be to assign the commands to your mouse buttons.<br><span style="font-size:10px"><br /><br />Edited by John Connor - 17.Feb.2015 at 13:15</span>]]>
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   <pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2015 23:04:04 +0000</pubDate>
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    <![CDATA[<strong>Author:</strong> <a href="https://www.cadforum.cz/forum_en/member_profile.asp?PF=537129">stpierre6153</a><br /><strong>Subject:</strong> 10989<br /><strong>Posted:</strong> 16.Feb.2015 at 22:34<br /><br />I am new to AutoCAD LT. I have run full AutoCadd since version 1.1. Yes thats how old I am. Here is my question, I have a couple of very easy two command lisp's that i am lost with out that I cannot use in LT because you cannot use LISP files. Below are the LISP's. How do I put these into LT, macro, etc.&nbsp;<div>;;; zooms window</div><div>(defun c:w()</div><div>(command "zoom" "w")</div><div><br></div><div>;;; zooms all</div><div>(defun c:za ()</div><div>(command "zoom" "a")</div><div><br></div><div>;;; zooms previous</div><div>(defun c:zx()</div><div>(command "zoom" "p")</div><div><br></div><div>If anyone can help I would greatly appreciate it. The problem with growing old and being set in your ways.</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you,</div>]]>
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