Often times its nice to create a drawing package where all the geometry and dimension and text are drawn in model space and want to make different layout tabs showing all the different geometries in the model space. We want all the text and dimensions to be the same size throughout all the print pages. … Continue reading Viewports and Dimension Scales
Clear All Check Boxes In Excel VBA Userform
This example uses a for each loop so that each check box name does not have to be explicitly written out. This is useful when you are adding more control and limit the amount of code you are writing. Better Method Dim ctrl As Control Sub ClearAllButton_Click() For Each ctrl In exportFilesUF.Controls If TypeName(ctrl) = … Continue reading Clear All Check Boxes In Excel VBA Userform
Find Intersect Between Two Block Objects
This code will create two blocks that have a light weight polyline of a triangle and a trapezoid. We want the two object to have a specific gap between them without intersecting. WE CAN DO THIS! No Calculus required. We do this by exploding the block and then offsetting the polyline a specific distance with … Continue reading Find Intersect Between Two Block Objects
Change Tags of all MultiLeader objects
This example shown is for a custom multileader that has additional attributes; although with slight modification it can also work with standard multileader. This is useful when trying to match the pcmarks with the Bill of Material items in a table. The code can be expanded to loop through a BOM table, for simplicity I … Continue reading Change Tags of all MultiLeader objects
Compile Bill of Materials and Remove Duplicates
This example builds upon the methods of finding duplicate data. See https://pearlsnake.com/2019/06/20/find-and-delete-rows-with-duplicate-data/ In order for a row to be complied, Column A, E and K have to match the data in other rows. After running the example the data was been reduced from 35 rows to 30 rows. This helps purchasing departments so they don't … Continue reading Compile Bill of Materials and Remove Duplicates
Find and Delete Rows With Duplicate Data
This code will use the collection object to quickly determine if data is a duplicate. It uses the .add method and will return an error if the data is already in the collection and wont be added. We can also use .count method to see if that item was added to the collection or not. … Continue reading Find and Delete Rows With Duplicate Data
AddSpline Method
This example will grab scanned data from an excel file and create a visual representation of the scan data in AutoCAD by drawing splines. I haved uploaded the excel file for viewing reference Scan Data_to_Autocad.xlsm Results: Drawn Splines Excel Scanned Data Option Explicit Public MTextObj As AcadMText Public ACLayout As AcadLayout Public acadApp As Object … Continue reading AddSpline Method
