News Release

        HOUSTON, Texas, Aug. 11, 2005 (AUTODRAW) -- Autodraw announces the release of a major upgrade to its software that makes drawing with Autocad exciting and fun!  It extends capabilities of Autocad resulting in significant time savings during the drawing process for designers and engineers of any discipline.  Techniques to save keystrokes for Autocad’s most used editing commands are implemented.

        Autodraw features double clicking commands in a list to run them in Autocad.  It allows creating customized Autolisp commands with a single click.  This also adds each command to a selected file.  This file can be loaded into Autocad with a single click and its commands made available in a list.  Customized commands include commands for drawing lines, moving, copying, and for shorter definitions for Autocad commands.

                Each command in the list can also be made into an Autolisp (.lsp) file with the Make Lsp File From Selected Command submenu in the Make menu.  This also adds a line at the end of the file that runs the command when this file is loaded.  The command is run with a script (.scr) file that is also created when making the lsp file.  Loading this file is made possible with the Load Lsp File submenu in the Make menu.

        Autolisp code seekers will find an abundance of unique commands. As each command is selected in the list it's code is displayed in a text box.  The complete Autolisp file may be viewed by clicking a button.

        Finding dimensions of like dimstyles  and finding text of the same height is made possible with ease and dramatic results on Autocad’s screen.  You can pick text parameters from existing text, and get scale factors from two circles, two lines, two text entities, or two inserts.  You can copy and paste text or attributes to text or attributes in an insert without a dialog box.  You may also edit text or attributes without a dialog box (for small edits).
 
        The code includes commands for exporting text, two clipboards, and simple math.  Pasteblock is a command that pastes the clipboard contents as a block with a name provided by Autocad.  This command is redefined to insert the block and store the block’s name in a variable.  Autocad’s block name can be renamed easily to a friendlier one.

        Autodraw includes a complete set of tutorials in help files.  A simple 3D setup command takes the mystery out of drawing in 3D.  A 3D Excitement Sample Page along with snapshots of the program and help files may be viewed at autodraw.com on the web.