Dealing mainly with means of creating automated workstations (or CAD systems) based on the AutoCAD system this text analyzes the problem of adapting a workplace to fit the concrete plans of the designer from a number of angles, and provides a detailed description of the AutoLISP language. Methods for working in a Visual LISP environment, which allows you to compile and debug programs written in AutoLISP, are provided. And methods for creating user menus including pull-down menus, context menus, on-screen menus, and toolbars and for planning dialog boxes in applications are thoroughly examined. Key features include: a discussion of typical designing and programming tasks of AutoCAD developers and essential problem-solving information and useable example codes; a detailed review of the AutoLISP programming language; use of the Diesel language to create all necessary control elements for user menus; and practical, concise, real-world advice and examples.

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This book -updated for Release 2019- aims at guiding he who uses AutoCAD on a daily basis in becoming a true expert. That kind of AutoCAD expert that is acquainted with, understands and can manipulate the program's inner workings to achieve the desired output in a fast and efficient way. That expert who is not satisfied with what comes out of the box, but demands more. Like automating the creation and shaping of 3D objects, whether 3DSolids, subdivision meshes, associative or NURBS surfaces and setting the points of view and visualization modes that help in understanding the generated models. To these and other advanced techniques, including parameterization, reactors, the graphical user interface and building applications, more than half of this book is dedicated. For this we use Visual LISP, the tool of choice to customize and extend AutoCAD's features, be it by its capabilities as a basic scripting language to automate repetitive tasks or taking advantage of advanced drawing database access possibilities and the management of properties and methods exposed through the ActiveX interface. LISP programming techniques, including the use of the Visual LISP Integrated Development Environment, are explained starting from scratch. No previous experience in programming is required to profit from this book's contents. User support is available at http: //lispexpert.blogspot.com/. The source code for all the examples included in the book can be downloaded freely from the author's Blog http: //lispexpert.blogspot.com/

About Getting Organized (AutoLISP) AutoLISP programs can be very simple in nature, executing a few commands that you might commonly use throughout the a day. They can also be very complex, extracting and formatting information from blocks, and constructing the extracted information into a table. When you first get started, keep things simple and then once you feel comfortable with AutoLISP then start looking at conditional and looping statements. When you begin to develop an AutoLISP program, you should keep the following steps in mind: Think about which tasks you want to accomplish. Design the program. Write the code. Add comments and format the code for readability. Test and debug the program.

A how-to guide for migrating your skills and applications to Visual LISP, this book and accompanying CD-ROM teaches the professional and higher level user how to use the new programing language Visual LISP. The book covers the spectrum from programming with Visual LISP to manipulating AutoLISP commands into Visual LISP to a thorough coverage of related advanced topics.

With Version 2021, Autodesk announced its intention to remove the Visual LISP Integrated Development Environment (VLIDE) replacing it with the Visual Studio (VS) Code source editor. This is an open-source editor that can be used to develop programs in almost all known languages. This code editor features IntelliSense code completion, syntax highlighting, bracket-matching, auto-indentation, box-selection, snippets, and more. It also includes an interactive debugger, to step through source code, inspect variables, view call stacks, and execute commands in the console. And it has built-in support for Source Control Management by installing Git, a system for tracking changes in source code during software development.Having previously published the AutoCAD Expert's Visual LISP book which is based on VLIDE and considering that most of its content from this book related to AutoLISP / Visual LISP programming will not change and that only the chapters dedicated to the development environment would have to be modified, I have decided to publish AutoCAD 2021 VS Code Update including all those changes that would be necessary to make to the original book's text.As the situation above has not changed with the release of AutoCAD 2022, we now include in this Second Edition of the book, the few things added with the most recent version of the AutoCAD AutoLISP Extension. We are also expanding the information on the commands used in the management of Source Code Control.