Questions before moving to BricsCAD
Hello,
we ae in the process of deciding if we should move from AutoDesk to BricsCAD and I've been testing for the last few weeks. Mostly for our purposes I would say that the changeover is almost one to one, there are however a few points that impact productitivity/comfort that I would like to check.
a) Fillet: Autodesk offers the opportunity to see the fillet before the command is ended which can then be easily changed if it is not correct. As far as I can see in BricsCAD I have to complete the command and if it is incorrect undo and then restart the fillet command. Is there a way in BricsCAD to preview the fillet? Some option that I may have missed?
b) The second issue relates to counting blocks. I've read numerous posts and tested numerous Lisps regarding this however have not been able to solve my issue.
We have a number of blocks with various visibility states. AutoDesk offers the countblocks command in which I can count the blocs based on the visibility state. This works quite well and is heavily used by us.
I have found a lisp (from Lee-Mac) that will count the blocks for me and place the results in a table however where AutoDesk can change the block names based on their visibility states BricsCAD will adjust the block name to a irrelavant / ranomised(?) name e.g. *U83.
I have attached two files that will hopefully show this a bit clearer.
I would be interested to get your opinions on this. Thanks in advance.
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The dynamic blocks all have Anonymous Names such as "*U15" as well as the name we allocate. If you LIST the block are both names noted?
It may be the LISP needs tweaking to report the proper given name.0 -
You can change the fillet in any time - BricsCAD is direct modeling software - just select the fillet face and change the radius in the properties panel or use the PushPull tool. You can select the faces with the same radius and change them all at once. Every entity in BricsCAD has individual history that You can change at any time -
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This is correct, however I need radius to be tangental to the straight elements to each side of it. For example a road marking.
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On a block that is in its default setting I get only the Block Name.
A soon as I change the visibility state of the block then the Anonymous Name is listed alone.
Would it be the case that the LISP needs then to be able to identify both Block Names as well as Anonymous Names?
I must admit, my knowledge of LISPS is between limited and none.
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I think you would use Effective Block Name
https://www.lee-mac.com/effectivename.html
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That's exactly what I'm trying to decypher at the moment.
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See this thread on how to get the effective name of *U block
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