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If you are familiar with Applications like MS Word, Excel, Access, Lotus 1-2-3 and such, then you also may have dealt with (or heard of) "Helpful Scripts" known as Macros.

Macros make an Application "Powerful" by performing automatic functions via another action (either a manual invoke or another automatic action).
In the above mentioned Apps', building routines via VBA is like placing a Macro on Steroids!

In AutoCAD, LISP routines are kind of like Macros - only with more Testosterone!
A LISP routine builds the basic template "Blank Drawing1" you see at each start-up for a new session.
You can tweek "Drawing1.DWG" to have any look you want at start-up, due to the LISP routine behind its creation.

The term "AutoLISP" is an AutoDesk relative LISP. AutoLISP is an Embedded Programming Language.

You can create Menu Macros, VBA routines and AutoLISP routines, which assist drammatically in normal drawing work - from creation to plotting and archiving and all between + edits or revisions.

These routines may be tweeked to work with outside applications - like Word or Excel, and make the complete project much more powerful and easier (less errors, too!).

Now here inlies the best methods, of which total Chaos may easilly and non-intentionally be induced to any (or all) projects... Doom and Gloom hides within the Scriptures of Embedded Language, waiting to spread its Dicketry
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Scott35

Scott " 35 " Thompson
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