OUTLINE A BLOCK

[chad.beussink]

I want a lisp routine that will place an polyline outline around the selected bock. I have tried "BOUNDARY", but it does not work very good with larger blocks. I also found a lisp routine that was mentioned in another thread, but it only worked on 1 level blocks, meaning it did not work on blocks that had nested blocks within it. Here is a copy of that lisp, if anyone thinks they can fix it.

I've also found something called "SHRINKWRAP", but this is not a command for regular AutoCAD. But it sounds like exactly what I need.

Any help would be appreciated. BTW - I am on AutoCAD 2006.

Thanks,
Chad

[irneb]

For nested stuff, maybe a dirty solution is to use the ECO you've got - some LISP could check if the block contains any nested blocks, then run the ECO on them separately (obtaining their "ECO"). Then create a temporary block with all the 1st block's own linework + the ECO's of the nested blocks, then run the ECO on that block again to obtain a combined ECO.