The AutoCADET's Guide to Visual LISP

Customize AutoCAD to include productivity enhancements like new commands, combinations of existing commands, or list processing scripts for the storage and manipulation of data. This tutorial offers a full complement of AutoLISP programming skills. Beginning with an introduction to the language, the programming environment, and the Visual LISP editor, succeeding chapters address data manipulation, user input and output options, programming dialog boxes, modifying AutoCAD drawing database objects, and using advanced features of the Visual LISP programming tool kit. Demonstration projects can also serve as core applications for your own use. Author Bill is a computer scientist who has been involved in CAD/CAM applications since the late 1970s working with main frame to microcomputer systems. Considered to be an authority on AutoCAD customization, Bill has won several awards for his tutorial presentations at the annual Autodesk Universities. Bill has been the president of his own Dublin, Ohio-based design firm, AUTO-CODE MECHANICAL, since 1986, and he is the programming industry group chair for the AutoCAd Users Group (AUGI). He is one of the most widely read writers about the subject of AutoCAD programming with regular columns in the leading industry magazines CADENCE and Cadalyst.