AboutScott Cook Expertise I`ve been using AutoCAD since 1987 and programming AutoLISP nearly as long. I can answer questions about programming AutoCAD (except ARX) and production enhancement techniques. I cannot answer questions about AutoCAD crashes or DWG corruption. AutoCAD PROGRAMMING (menus, lisp) related questions only!
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Question QUESTION: Scott,
I use acad 2007 and I am trying to set up a button on my custom toolbar that will scale all the entities on the paper space from metric to imperial. I've got a button set up using the scale all command but I still have to manually enter the scale factor 0.039370079. I have no experience with macros and can't seem to get it right. Any ideas how the macro would be written? Any help would be appreciated as I draw in metric frequently and then need to scale to imperial for cnc programming.
ANSWER: send me the macro you have. you are probably just missing an enter after your scale all;;
two semicolons should be after the select objects prompt.
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QUESTION: Hi Scott,
Thanks for the quick response. I've pasted the macro I use below. As it's written now, I click on the scale all button, then I have to right click the mouse, then left click over the model space then type in the scale factor and enter. Ideally I would like to click on the scale all button and let the macro do all the work.
thanks again.
Answer ditch all that for this:
^C^Cscale;all;;0,0;0.039370079
you might have to play around with it a bit. semicolons are enters. just match up what you would type at the command line to do it. using 0,0 as the basepoint will cause everything to shift relative to 0 - so you may or may not want that.
