Your Favorite VANILLA AutoCad Add-Ons

[madcadder]

We've had the favorite programs post; I've seem the FireFox Stuff, but I don't recall a post dedicated to "My Favorite Plain Ole AutoCAD Add-Ons"...

So, What are you favorite AutoCAD add-ons, the stuff used daily, can not live without? Might as well put me a drafting board with a box of crayons without this stuff!
Who makes it? and where can it be found? and if you want "Why?"

QuikPik, Periscope, and SuperPurge
www.manusoft.com

DocumentTabs
www.caelink.com

llpsite toolbar
(out of business)

NewCADtools2
http://www.cadhedral.com/

LayerToolbar, Paper/Model Toolbar
http://www.spaug.org/Toolbars.Html

[JASONM30395]

QuikPik, Periscope, and SuperPurge
www.manusoft.com

DocumentTabs
www.caelink.com

Periscope is OK but I prefer BubbleCAD
http://www.bubblecad.com/en/bubble.htm

And for multi document controle I use DocBar
http://cadwerx.net
which was free until just a little while ago

[robert.1.hall72202]

Be careful with anything that tabulates drawings. I had the DocBar crash, balloon a file to 3mb, and I lost my work. I was not able to recover the 3mb file due to some junk code imbedded within the file.

[michael.12445]

We've rolled our own. Our favorites:

- A VBA button that asks you to select an xref, then opens the file. (AutoCAD 2002 only has REFEDIT, which doesn't always work and can give unpredictable results.)
- Another VBA button that removes all the layer filters from the LAYER dialog. Doing this speeds up drawings a lot.
- A LISP button that sets all the dimensioning variables and sets up an office-standard dimensioning style.
- A macro button that selects the last object created and hatches it (of course it only works if the last object created was a closed polyline, circle, ellipse, rectangle, etc.).

Michael Evans

[madcadder]

We've rolled our own. Our favorites:

- A VBA button that asks you to select an xref, then opens the file. (AutoCAD 2002 only has REFEDIT, which doesn't always work and can give unpredictable results.)
- Another VBA button that removes all the layer filters from the LAYER dialog. Doing this speeds up drawings a lot.
- A LISP button that sets all the dimensioning variables and sets up an office-standard dimensioning style.
- A macro button that selects the last object created and hatches it (of course it only works if the last object created was a closed polyline, circle, ellipse, rectangle, etc.).

Michael Evans

I'd like to see that Open Xref VBA code. I did mine in LSP, using VBA, called OpenX.lsp.

[michael.12445]

I'd like to see that Open Xref VBA code. I did mine in LSP, using VBA, called OpenX.lsp.

Todd,

Please see the attached file.

Regards,

Michael Evans

[de-co1]

- Another VBA button that removes all the layer filters from the LAYER dialog. Doing this speeds up drawings a lot.

Yeah... I wish something like this was available to work on non-LSP / non-VBA systems like ACAD LT 2000 - Oh how I miss working on up-to-date packages... However, when I was working with them, then, and in addition to others mentioned already,

http://www.dotsoft.com/freestuff.htm

was sometimes pretty useful for lisp routines.

[mfowler]

Yeah... I wish something like this was available to work on non-LSP / non-VBA systems like ACAD LT 2000 - Oh how I miss working on up-to-date packages... However, when I was working with them, then, and in addition to others mentioned already,

http://www.dotsoft.com/freestuff.htm

was sometimes pretty useful for lisp routines.

I second this post, and also highly recommend the ToolPac set that this company produces. Many, many great features. The symbol manager alone is worth the price.

ToolPac

[byron34986]

I regret that you feel you had a bad experience with DocBar. However I must make it clear that there is no way that DocBar could have been the source of your problem (with respect to the ballooning drawing size) as it has no code that modifies or adds anything (visible or otherwise) to the drawing. Unfortunately, earlier versions did contain code that would catch unhandled exceptions that were generated in other (non-DocBar) code and would report the error giving the false impression that it was DocBar that caused the crash.

Byron Blattel
CADwerx--Applications for AutoCAD
Autodesk Registered Developer
Contact Info @ http://www.cadwerx.net
Custom Programming Services - ObjectARX/C++/MFC/ASP/STL/ATL/ISAPI...

[jaberwok]

QuikPik - don't leave home without it!