Overkill Command equivalent

Caesar Vanlint
Caesar Vanlint
in 2D Drafting

Hi,

I have gotten used to using the command overkill within Autocad and have been lookiing for an equivalent.

I've seached the Application section on the Bricsys site but couldn't find anything.

Has anyone heard of an Addon program or LISP routine that will handle the  same task??

Cheers,

Comments

  • Rakesh Rao
    Rakesh Rao

     

    Hi Caesar,

    I have not used the OverKill  command myself but I think it is a tool to remove duplicate objects from the drawing. We have a small add-on softwrae called GeoTools that offer over 250+ useful productivity and geographic tools for the Bricscad user. Delete Duplicates, which I think is what you are looking for, is one of them.

    You can download a fully functional trial at this URL: http://www.coordsys.com/geotools/download/geotools_bricscad.exe

    If you are a Lisp developers, you can even download the Lisp source code for this and more at our FREE resources site for Bricscad/AutoCAD lisp: http://www.coordsys.com/techcenter. Look under the Miscellaneous Tools (MI_ChkDup...) function.

    Regards
    Rakesh Rao
    Coordinate Systems

     

     

  • Damian Harkin
    Damian Harkin

    In Sofoco Tools there is a tool called 'Duplicity'.  Currently only works in ModelSpace - I should fix it!

  • Bill Tybring
    Bill Tybring

    FYI- both possibilities listed above (Duplicity and MI_ChkDup) appear to only remove entities that are exactly identical - they do not fix overlapping line or arc segments- for exaple several arcs that share a centerpoint and radius but have different start / end points and overlap.

    Any other suggestions?

  • John Gaunt
    John Gaunt

    For removing duplicate objects I use a lisp called econo3.

    It works for lines and plines.

    http://autocad.xarch.at/code/olasov/ghindex.html

  • Bill Tybring
    Bill Tybring

    Thanks John- really works great for straight lines, but I need something that will handle circles and arcs as well.

    Still looking.....

  • Rakesh Rao
    Rakesh Rao

    Hi Bill,

    In our GeoTools program, we have a GT_OVERLAP command that will detect overlapping LINE objects and delete them even if the overlap was partial and in between. This has been pretty useful to many but I must admit that it can be imroved further to support polylines, arcs etc.

    Some other time, I also wrote a custom routine that would detect and delete concentric circles, retaining only the largest of the circle. I intend bringing this tool into GeoTools or CADPower pretty soon hopefully.

    It would really be good  to have a tool that will detect and handle overlaps in a wide variety of CAD objects.

    I hope to implement and release these are commands in GeoTools or post some of them as freeware tools, like the MI_ChkDup function in our TechCenter (http://www.4d-technologies.com/techcenter).

    Until then, keep telling me your thoughts and what you need.

    Regards
    Rakesh
    http://www.coordsys.com

  • Bill Tybring
    Bill Tybring

    Thanks Rakesh- keep us posted- I have looked at MI_ChkDup and it's a start, and have another utility that works with overlapping lines...

    The ideal would be a single utility to:

    1. Explode polylines.
    2. Remove duplicate lines, circles, arcs and splines.
    3. Remove overlapping lines- leaving a single line segment the full length of the combination.
    4. Remove overlapping arcs- leaving a single arc segment (or fuill circle) which represents the total arc sweep of all combined.

    There's a lot of call for this in manufacturing- any time CNC milling, laser, or plasma operations need to follow a contour- removing these extras can simplify programming and make for cleaner / smoother cutting / milling.  I may have to program something myself in LISP or .net but since "Overkill" is already out there I was hoping someone had already done something similar for Brics.

    Thanks again and Best Regards,

    Bill

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