ARKANCE (CAD Studio) applications

Modify fAREA

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Topic: Modify fAREA

Posted By: yavo7789
Subject: Modify fAREA
Date Posted: 14.Jan.2019 at 10:34

Greetings,

would someone be so kind to tell me how to edit the fAREA .vlx lisp?

I don't have any experience with Visual Lisp. The Read Me file says:

You can predefine these parameters with the following LISP

variables (set before you start the command):

LISP variables:

_FAREAPREC (default: LUPREC) - e.g.:

(setq _FAREAPREC 2)

_FAREAFACTOR (default 1.0) - e.g.:

(setq _FAREAFACTOR 0.001)

_FAREASUFFIX (default " m2") - e.g.:

(setq _FAREASUFFIX " mm2")

_FLENGTHPREC (default LUPREC) - e.g.:

(setq _FLENGTHPREC 2)

_FLENGTHFACTOR (default 1.0) - e.g.:

(setq _FLENGTHFACTOR 100.0)

_FLENGTHSUFFIX (default " m") - e.g.:

(setq _FLENGTHSUFFIX " km")

_FPROP (default "Linetype") - e.g.:

(setq _FPROP "Material")

_fAreaSameLayer (default nil; change label layer to object's):

(setq _fAreaSameLayer T)

_FAREADS (default: system decimal separator) - e.g.:

(setq _FAREADS ",")

How do I do that? Could you please send me some screen shots on how it is done or post a link to where it is explained in detail? Thank you in advance!

Kind Regards

Replies:

Posted By: Vladimir Michl
Date Posted: 14.Jan.2019 at 11:50

Hello,

you cannot edit the VLX file but you can use the mentioned commands to customize this application. It is simple - just copy (or retype) the LISP commands to your AutoCAD command line.

E.g. to set a 6-digits precision for fArea output, type:

(setq _FAREAPREC 6)

If you want to set it permanently, add this line to your ACADDOC.LSP file (or create new if it does not exist in your AutoCAD support path).

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Posted By: yavo7789
Date Posted: 19.Jan.2019 at 19:55

Good evening Vladimir,

first of all thank you for the fast response. I was able to create my own acaddoc.lsp and setup fAREA as you advised. The only issue I ran into was setting up a unicode character E.g: (setq _FAREASUFFIX " ?") where ? is a cyrillic small letter m. It appears AutoCad loads only ANSI encoded .lsp files. When i setup "?" as suffix within AutoCad it works, the fAREA.vlx seems to support UNICODE characters. I also tried to work around with subscripted Capital latin letter M, but Notepad and Visual Lisp don't support subscripts as well as unicode cyrilic characters. Is there any way I can set up fAREA permanently to dysplay " ?" as suffix? Thank you in advance!

Cheers