THINKING ABOUT MOVING TO BRICSCAD BUT..
I have the following issues with Bricscad that I need to resalve befreo I can justify making a switch from ACAD1. AutoCad has an command called “xopen” this command allows you to open an xreference inside a drawing. I can find no equivalent command in Bricscad. 2. When I use a simple copy-paste from excel only part of my paste come into Bricscad. Autocad does the same thing as well but the issue is Bricscad is much worse. That is to say that much less of the excel file will show up in the drawing file. any help would be great
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You can open an xref from the xref path column in Icad's explorer.
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Well, don’t let those little items stop you..
(DEFUN C:XOPEN ()(VLA-ACTIVATE (VLA-OPEN (VLA-GET-DOCUMENTS (VLAX-GET-ACAD-OBJECT)) (VLAX-GET-PROPERTY (VLAX-ENAME->VLA-OBJECT (CAR (ENTSEL))) 'PATH)))(PRINC))Doesn’t do any error checking but, it’s a start :^)
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Very nice, Daniel! Thanks for posting that.Scott, as for your other point, pasting from Excel, I've never tried that before, but I tried it after reading this, and everything pasted in. I tried it three ways. First I just pasted into model space, which created an exact image of the Excel file. Then I created an mText and pasted into that, which gave me all the data, with font information, but some rows not lined up with the right columns. Finally, I pasted into Notepad and then copied and pasted from that into an mText, which got the columns right and didn't bring in the Excel font.I have Office 97, though. So maybe the problem you're having is due to a newer version of Excel, which has other formatting characters that throw the cad programs off? Have you tried going through Notepad?
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We have found that Open Office and Office 2000 workbooks do not paste well into bricscad when operating system is Vista, the issue seems to be more related to the third party programs than to Bricscad, please indicate the version of operating system and office program.The issue becomes apparent when you insert a large worksheet (over 10 columns and rows), Autocad is not that great at it either
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What is the purpose of the snippet posted by Mr Marcotte (2008-04-12)?
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What is the purpose of the snippet posted by Mr Marcotte (2008-04-12)?HiIf you mean the purpose for my posting the code, I guess it was to show, that even though some features might not yet be in Bricscad, some can be easily implemented using one of the API’s Bricsys is working so hard to provide us. If you mean the purpose of the code itself, it’s to open an Xref in a similar fashion as AutoCAD’s xopen commandDan
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Rather than copy-paste between Bricscad and OpenOffice Calc, you have to build first your table in OpenOffice, save as a file. and then in Bricscad menu Insert / Insert Object /from file select the *.ods file / (check link) and then you will get your full table. i have just make a quick test 600 rows x 600 columns with different fonts, borders, colors, all working fine. (Bricscad V9 , OOO v3)
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