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ACAD Newsletter December 2004
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jos vandoorn
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Dec 01, 2004 22:48 PST
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Newsletter about AutoCAD and AutoLISP
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Vol 4, No 12 December 2004
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In this issue we have prepared for you....
1. Top Sponsor Section
2. Notes from the Publisher
3. Text in 3D 2
4. Privacy Policy, Legal Stuff and Advertising Info
5. Contact Information
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2. Notes from the Publisher
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Forum
A new one. On the web site of my AutoLISP books. You
can go to the forum. And post your AutoLISP questions
there. Let's see what happens.
Maybe you'll get an answer from one of the visitors of
the forum. If not, then you'll get an answer from me.
Anyhow. You'll get an answer.
This is the web site of my AutoLISP books. Find the
forum here.
http://autocadbooks.topcities.com
Why AutoLISP books?
I told you. AutoLISP can help you to speed up AutoCAD.
Now you're spending hours or even days behind AutoCAD.
Most probably.
You can change that. Write an AutoLISP program. The
AutoLISP program will create a part of your drawing. Or
maybe the while drawing.
But that's the question. Why AutoLISP books? If you're
very good at AutoLISP, you don't need them. But if
you're starting.
If you're starting with AutoLISP. Or if you want to
start with AutoLISP. Get the books. To learn how it is
done.
I've got four AutoLISP books. The first book is about
the AutoLISP programming language. All functions are
explained in that book.
The second book is about creating dialog boxes in
AutoCAD. You can do it in an AutoLISP program. To make
it more professional.
The third book is about programming in AutoLISP. How is
it done? That's what you will see. It's not a matter if
sitting behind the computer and typing code.
The last book is about toolbars. You need to load your
program into AutoCAD before you can run it. Use a
toolbar. Much easier.
If you want to read more about my books. Go to this web
site. There you'll find a further explanation about the
books.
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Theo van Gogh
He's the Dutch film maker that was killed by an Islamic
extremist. I must say he did a smart job. The islamic
extremist. I'm not saying he was right.
The guy who did it. He's now in jail. He will be tried.
He will be sentenced. How much time will he serve? This
is Holland. Five years. At the most.
This guy. He killed Theo van Gogh. But what is going to
happen to him? Nothing. He will spend five years in
jail. And then he's free again.
That's so nice about the Dutch. They are no extremists.
If they were, they would start killing Muslims. But
that's not going to happen.
Imagine. The Dutch killing Muslims. The guy. Who's now
in jail. He would be thinking. That it wasn't such a
good idea to kill Theo van Gogh.
He may even become afraid. What will happen to him when
he comes out of jail? Will somebody be waiting for him?
With a gun?
The man. Who's now in jail. He did a smart job. He
killed Theo van Gogh. Now he has nothing to worry
about. He's fine.
Of course Bush Won
John Kerry blew it. He blew it completely. He was
talking about Iraq, about Afghanistan, and he was
talking about the deficit.
Not Bush. He was smart. This what he said: "You know
where I stand for. I'll beat these terrorists".
That's the language people wanted to hear.
Talking about Iraq. Talking about Afghanistan. The
majority of the Americans don't know where Iraq is. Or
Afghanistan.
The deficit. What's a deficit? Is it something you can
eat? Something like breakfast? The average American
doesn't know about deficit.
John should have talked in a much different way. Do you
want to loose your job? Then don't vote for me. Because
I'm going to give you jobs.
Do you want to send your kids to the war? And get them
back without an arm? Or even worse. Dead. Then don't
vote for me. I'm going to stop the war.
That's the language the average American understands.
That's the language the average American wants to hear.
That makes them vote for Kerry.
Now there was Bush. Talking like a tough guy. He got
all the votes. Bush knew what to say. Or the right
people told him.
America is fighting in Iraq. And America is fighting in
Afghanistan. The average American thinks that
aliens are fighting there.
And then of course there were the wives. Theresa Heinz
versus Laura Bush. Sorry Theresa. But you loose. Laura
is much prettier.
Bush and Kerry. Both have two daughters. My God. The
two of Bush look pretty. And the two of Kerry. How ugly
they are.
In four more years we will have again presidential
elections in America. Hillary is running. Make sure
she's always wearing pants.
Time Zones
I was thinking. We have time zones. Why? We came up
with the idea of time zones? I think it is a bad idea.
We all should have the same time.
Look. I live in Malaysia. My own country. Holland.
There it is six hours earlier. I must always calculate
what the time is in Holland.
Or Florida in America. The time there is twelve hours
earlier than in Malaysia. We now have elections in
America.
I must wait until Thursday before I know whether Bush
was reelected or Kerry is going to be the next
president of the USA.
America is a big country. I'm not sure. Of course. But
I think they have got three time zones in that country.
And Russia? Seven!
Suppose we don't have time zones. And all over the
world we have the same time. Now that would be good. No
more calculations.
Now. Let's see.What is the time? Three o'clock. Very
good. I promised this guy from America a call. At three
o'clock. I'm on time.
OK. We must change out working hours. We will be
working at night. Here in Malaysia. But that can't be a
big problem.
I'll make a proposal. Let's start with making this
proposal to all the world leaders. I will do it at the
UN. Are you going to support me?
How Much?
This man. A very nice person. But you know how it
always is with nice persons. Married and not happily
married.
I was talking to that man. We were talking about his
wife. I didn't start with talking about his wife. He
did.
That was clear. He wanted to get rid of his wife. "You
know what", he said, "you can get her. How much do you
want to give to me?"
First he was telling me that his wife is no good. And
then he tells me that I can get her. Next he asks me
how much I want to pay.
That's wasn't too complicated. "Nothing", I said to
him. "Sold", he said. Lucky me. I could escape. I went
to Malaysia.
Uncle
The other day this lady asked me. "What's your name?".
OK. She spoke Bahasa. And I undestand it a little.
"Siapa nama anda?".
I told her my name. "Uncle", I said. I repeated it in
Bahasa. "Nama saya uncle". Because that's how people
call me. Especially kids.
The lady looked at me. Then she started laughing. Why
was she laughing? Isn't it bad enough that everybody
calls me uncle?
How old?
That was another lady. She asked me how old I am. Don't
ask me that question. I always give the same answer.
Twenty eight.
The lady looked at me. She didn't believe me. "No", she
said, "you're not 28. You're in your fourties". The
lady was serious.
"What?", I asked her, "do I look like more than 40?".
The lady became soft. "OK", she said,"maybe thirty
plus. But more than 30".
Yeah. You know. Already married. So no hanky panky.
Otherwise I would be talking to her about marriage. You
know. That's me. Quicky.
Even if you call me uncle. Have a good read.
Conductor
The other day I was riding in the bus. I was sitting
next to a very pretty young lady. I'm so shy. Did she
make me nervous.
The conductor had done his round. He saw the young
lady. He started talking to her. I think they had a
good time. They ere smiling.
Anyway. After a while. The conductor wanted to have the
telephone number of the young lady. He gave her a
paper. But she didn't give him her number.
I was laughing. Then I thought of helping the
conductor. In my best Malay. I said to him: "Harus bawa
telephone number anda satu".
For the non-Malays. And the Malays. Because my Malay
comes with an accent. Even if I write. I said: "You
must her your number fist".
The conductor smiled at me. But he didn't give her his
number. Stupid. He didn't get the number of the girl
either.
You know. I know one or two tricks. And what I told
him. If he had given her his number she would have
given him her number.
The girl got out of the bus. I asked the conductor why
he didn't give her his number. "Sudah kawin", he said.
I knew it. Not true.
No. This time only for the non-Malay. Because this time
there is no accent in my Malay. "Sudah kawin" means
"already married".
Learning AutoLISP
That's where I'm talking about. Learning AutoLISP. I
think that's what you must do. If you're working with
AutoCAD and don't know AutoLISP.
AutoLISP is the programming language of AutoCAD. You
can write programs in AutoLISP. The programs help you
to speed up AutoCAD.
Once you've speeded up AutoCAD you'll be saving lots of
time and money with AutoCAD. You'll get your AutoCAD
drawings much faster.
That's something I did for a company. They were
creating similar AutoCAD drawings all the time. I wrote
a program for them.
Creating their AutoCAD drawings by hand took a day.
Using my program the AutoCAD drawing was created within
one minute.
Another customer. He didn't have similar AutoCAD
drawings. But his drawings had parts that came back all
the time.
I wrote a program. For drawing that part. They didn't
get their AutoCAD drawings within one minute. But they
were saving 50% of the time.
Sure. You can come to me. And engage me for writing an
AutoLISP program for you. But that's not what you
should do. Do it yourself.
I think you should write your own AutoLISP programs. If
you don't know how to do it. I can help you. I can show
you how it is done.
Even if you're not a pretty lady. And you don't make me
shy. Have a good read.
Jos
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3. Text in 3D 2
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We have seen how we can give a 3D effect to text. Just
write the text and give it a thickness. Of course use a
SHX font.
But let’s do something nice with the text in 3D. We
have a 3D view of the text. We selected the SW
Isometric view.
We’re going to create a BMP file out of the text. And
next we’re going to make changes to the BMP file. We’ll
do that in the Paint program.
We use the EXPORT command to create a BMP file out of
the drawing. Click on File on the menu bar and on
Export on the pull-down menu.
The Export Data dialog box is displayed. We can give
out file a name. Let’s call it “This”. But we must
select the BMP file type.
On the combo box where we entered the name of the file
is another combo box. Click on the down arrow and
select “Bitmap (*.bmp)” for the file type.
We click the Save button. There is asked to save
objects. We select the text we created. That text is
exported to a BMP file.
We open the Paint program of Windows. You know how to
do that. I don’t have to tell you. Load the BMP file in
it.
Maybe you want to change the BMP file. You could fill
it with colors. Change the size of the view to get a
better look at the BMP file.
Congratulations. We’ve done a lot with text. We gave it
a 3D format and we changed it using the Paint program.
You’re now ready for 3D text.
One more thing. Maybe you want to insert the BMP file
into your AutoCAD drawing. Believe me. That’s not such
a good idea.
The look of the BMP file will change. It doesn’t look
good no more. See for yourself. Have a look at how it
looks in AutoCAD.
Insert the BMP file in AutoCAD. Click on Insert on the
menu bar and on OLE Object on the pull-down menu. The
Insert Object dialog box opens.
In the dialog box are two radio buttons. Click in the
radio button in front of “Create from File”. The Browse
button becomes available.
Click on it and select the BMP file that is to be
inserted in the Browse dialog box. Next click the OK
button.
The BMP file has been inserted into the AutoCAD
drawing. You can change the size by moving the cursor
of one of the handles.
But there is nothing you can do about the picture that
is displayed. OK. One thing. You can remove the text of
the picture.
Right click the picture. In the shortcut menu move the
cursor over Package Object. A new shortcut menu is
displayed. Click on Edit Picture.
The Object Packager dialog box is displayed. In the
menu bar of the dialog box click on Edit and on Label
in the pull-down menu.
The Label dialog box is displayed. In it is the label.
In it is what can be seen in the inserted BMP file.
Delete it.
Click on the OK button to close the dialog box. In
Object Packager dialog box click on File and on Exit in
the pull-down menu.
A dialog box shows up asking whether the drawing is to
be updated. Click on the Yes button. And the picture in
the drawing is updated.
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Writer of this article is Jos van Doorn. He is an
AutoCAD specialist, AutoLISP programmer and ACAD
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