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PolyLine - Station offset macro

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Topic: PolyLine - Station offset macro
Posted By: ebrody
Subject: PolyLine - Station offset macro
Date Posted: 08.May.2014 at 22:20
Am I thinking of this correctly?

^C^CPL 'SO

When I make that into a custom command with PLS as the command name, it says "PLS" is not a valid command.

What am I missing? 


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Posted By: John Connor
Date Posted: 09.May.2014 at 00:23
What does PLS stand for?

Why isn't it written as ^C^C_PLS


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Posted By: ebrody
Date Posted: 09.May.2014 at 14:40
PLS would be my keyboard command for the station offset poly line command

pl - to get a polyline started
'so - to have it function as a station offset polyline

PLS would be what I'd call the command.

Posted By: John Connor
Date Posted: 09.May.2014 at 15:05
Does Civil 3D have the Macro Recorder feature?


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Posted By: Kent Cooper
Date Posted: 09.May.2014 at 15:05

You don't say how you made it into a custom command.  What you have would be appropriate to a menu item button in various places, but if you want to be able to type PLS at the Command: prompt, you need to define it using (defun ...), and within that, you can't use the macro-language form you posted.  It would need to be something like [I don't have the station-offset option, so you'll need to check the correctness of the option entry]:

(defun C:PLS ()
  (command "_.pline" "'so")
)
 
That should leave you in the command, at whatever prompt comes after selecting that option.

Posted By: ebrody
Date Posted: 15.May.2014 at 18:30
Is this similar to my other question on by layer commands?  (http://www.cadforum.cz/forum_en/forum_posts.asp?TID=10160&PN=1&title=custom-command-macro-help)

So I need to create a .lsp to run these and then inject the loading of that command into acad2013.lsp?


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