Open options dialog to specific system var item?

James Maeding

I want to make a help program for acad users to find items in the bcad options dialog.
I'm using .net API.
Anyone done that?

James Maeding

I mean "anyone know how to open options to a specific variable item"?
I assume I'm the first to do a help tool like that, but then again I swim in a micro pool

Owen Wengerd

You can run the SETTINGSSEARCH command, and specify the exact name of the setting as the search term.

MDunn

James,
Your creation sounds VERY useful, particularly for us old Acad hands trying to migrate over to BricsCAD.
Been using BricsCAD for 2 months now & still stumbling around a bit because of the need for what you are creating, a go-between Help Support for Acad-to-BricsCAD, for the experienced Acad users, because the devil is in the subtle differences.
Most of my problems are w/ getting Acad lisp routines to work in BricsCAD, because of those subtle differences in Settings/Options. That's the problem w/ 25 yrs. doing Acad & now something close but not quite the same, like taking out a hard return in a Lisp routine to make it work (devil in the subtle differences).
Would a list of the 939 SetVars help? Created an Excel file listing all of the SetVars & settings, because it is hard to find them in Options or Settings, & changing it in Options or Settings isn’t enough, sometimes the SetVar needs to be changed & included in the following file:
C:\Program Files\Bricsys\BricsCAD V18 en_US\Support\ on_doc_load.lsp
Example:
load "Acettest.des")
(setvar "INSUNITS" 1)
(princ)
Let me know if you would like the Excel file, if you haven’t already created one.
My frustration level has been extreme @ times knowing the answer will be simple (& it always is simple), just not knowing where to go to get it.
Support is only marginally helpful because they rely too much on reading from a list of questions / answers & do not know the software.
There should be a separate support group for handling us experienced CAD hands, as we are the ones that will spread the word about BricsCAD to the other CAD users & convince them to migrate over to BricsCAD because we found it so much better in every way. In reality, the help is no better, & sometimes I feel it is worse than Acad.
There are times I just open AutoCAD (kept a couple seats just in case) & “get it done” just because I am tired of beating my head against the wall in BricsCAD, & I know I can get it done in Acad in a second.
Hopefully it will get to the point of not needing AutoCAD one day, but that day is not here yet because of these migration issues that go unexplained &/or unstated.
What Bricsys needs is someone that would be dedicated to solving these Acad-to-BricsCAD migration issues; documentation & help support that documents & explains the slight differences between Acad & BricsCAD. Then we would see BricsCAD take off w/ a vengeance.
Mike

Charles Alan Butler

This has been a good resource but need a BC version.
http://www.hyperpics.com/system_variables/

Owen Wengerd

There is nothing better than "BricsCAD for AutoCAD users" by Ralph Grabowski. It includes a complete list of system variables (among many other things). Read it here:
https://www.bricsys.com/en-us/documentation/