Expert: Paul Jordan - 6/10/2010

Question
Sir,

We are doing lot of drawings repeatedly in AutoCAD everyday, So I want to generate some lisps so that i can reduce my work a lot.So, kindly suggest me how to start to writing lisps.


Thanking You

Regards
Tapasvi

Answer
Tapasvi,

Lisp routines will allow you to automate a lot of commands in many different ways but, it's not an easy thing to learn by any means.  

There are several websites that have many tutorials on learning autolisp and I would suggest using google or yahoo and doing a search on learning autolisp.  Afralisp is one that comes to mind.  

AUGI.com is another excellent website that has a very active user forum, one being solely dedicated to autolisp.  You can ask questions there and there's also an ATP (AUGI Training Program) course on learning autolisp that should be of some help available there.

It's a free site to join and I highly recommend it to everyone.  They're a primary sponsor of Autodesk University here in Las Vegas every year.  10,000+ attendees can't be wrong.

Hope that helps,

Paul