Over the past 6 months, I have had to resort to command line options for plugins from CadWorx and others. The one was 2DREPH and I wanted to do it on X viewports. I had these viewports in an array, but how can I make a command line string that would consistently work? Well, it came down to making a selection set, then making a group with the same name (prefixed with lets say “GRP”), then using the commandline selection based on group. So, for instance, when prompted for objects here is a selection example:

“SELECT G GRPMYFAVGROUP  ” (note the 2 spaces at the end)

Handy. I then deleted the group to put things back to the way they were.Why? Well… Continue reading →

Well if that isn’t handy. Use ‘vbastmt’ on the command line and put VBA with its in-line separator (colon) and bob’s ur uncle. Click here for source.

I am a little tired of looking for this so I thought I would copy it here. Here is the source.

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So I am working with CadWorx. I needed a refresher on my Autocad XData – I suspected that is where the data was stored as CadWorx files seem to have a 3D shape and a line grouped together … but why? Well, the line had XDATA attached to it was my suspicion and I was right. Here are some links that I found helpful to get me re-oriented after 4 years of needing this info …

• XData organization straight from AutoCAD 
  • more (less useful) info on XData
• VBA / ActiveX Starter to get XData
• How to know what registered Apps exist in your file/AutoCad install
  • Whoa – thousands…. How to spit out ACad command line to a log file
  • or do it easily in VBA
• VBA variable types and what >8197 means – it means 8192 + 5 (vbArray + vbDouble)
• Retrieving xData – to take a peek under the hood of a component

Here are some websites with tips on how to make Restful Services.

https://closebrace.com/tutorials/2017-03-02/the-dead-simple-step-by-step-guide-for-front-end-developers-to-getting-up-and-running-with-nodejs-express-and-mongodb