My argument for simple scripting support

[Eric Stewart]

Or maybe someone will show me a trick.

I am placing hundreds of structural columns. I am placing them by grid intersection. Once I click finish on the options bar about 75% of the columns placed are not oriented the way I want them. I must rotate each one 90deg. Selecting the column, picking the rotate tool, typing 90 and pressing enter in the options bar.

Back in the old days.

(defun c:r90()
(command ".rotate" pause "" "ins" pause "90")
)

Then I could place all my columns, and go back to each one envoking the "r90" command by a simple right click and two picks per column and it would be rotated.

Don't get me wrong, I DON'T want to go back to AutoCAD, but some simple scripting would help out in this area along with many others.

[sfaust]

select all the ones you want to rotate and then hit spacebar. It's even faster than a script

That's not to say, though, that I wouldn't like some scripting support...

[Eric Stewart]

I KNEW IT! Thank you.

[patricks]

WHOA I never knew you could do the spacebar trick with objects already in place! I thought that was only while placing objects. Pretty slick!

Learn something new every day!