To minimize the problems of potential blow-ups, when you want to play with anything you should create a "test" profile so your active profile remains unscathed.ī) Click on Add To List to create a new profile.Į) Change anything you want, and do all your testing using your TEST profile.Īt any time you want to, you can flip back and forth between your active profile and your TEST profile without affecting the other. This resets the current profile to its "out pf the box" settings.ģ. The U or Undo commands will set things back if you use them in the current drawing session immediately after the problem occurs.Ī) Have a drawing open, or start a new blank drawing.ī) Start the Options command by typing it in, or click on the application menu button (the big red A in the upper left corner), then click on OPTIONS.
It is possible to add my "Circle" LISP routine to the ribbon, but it's very messy to do so.ġ. The only way to edit the interface now is by using the CUI ("Customize User Interface") command, which is extremely powerful but much more complex. In the early days, it was defined by a simple text menu like the example in my article, but unfortunately today it is hard-coded into the program and can't be changed, which is what messed things up when you tried, admittedly by following my now-outdated instructions. Including the parentheses to turn it on, and
If you want to see what the screen menu looked like, type In those days it used the "screen menu." Since then, it has gone through the menu bar and toolbars before reaching the current ribbon. The basic problem is that the "Learning Curve" article in question was written so long ago that AutoCAD has changed a lot. The basic principles of LISP are the same, but AutoCAD's interface has changed completely. All workspaces are gone and ribbon commands do not show up." Author Bill Fane explains: March 2016 Editor's Note: (Scroll down to bypass this note and start reading the tutorial.) A user of AutoCAD 2016 ran into trouble when creating test.mnu as instructed in this tutorial: "I could not get out of that screen. Learning to LISP 31 Jan, 1997 By: Bill Fane
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