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Portable Version Download: https://drive.google.com/file/d/11-X3d5gy_5TJ8OLeoTUw6KP4JTtL2STG/view?usp=sharing Run DwgToPdfPro.exe

@CivilTechSource the Block/dwg select is part of the POP menu interface, in particular the Icon section. It's just made with Notepad and you save a MNU file., Autocad handles the actual dcl. Re images yes they are slides, SLD files. Ok the how to. 1st step is you must shrink your screen area down to about 1/4 size. When slides were introduced screens were 640x480 so current screens are way more pixels. I use a lisp to make the slides insert say a block, zoom E, Zoom 0.9XP then MSLIDE, Erase last and insert next. Obviously the name of the saved slide is in the lisp. Without going into now you can make like 200 slides very quickly including inserting other block dwg's. You can use a program called Slide library it compresses all your slides into one SLB file a bit easier to manage, I have numerous slb files that contain common items eg landscaping, cars. ***MENUGROUP=CADARC ***POP1 **CADARC2018 [CADARC] LOAD CADARC]^C^C(LOAD "CA3ENTR2013")(LOAD "CA4USRLA-2") [->Set Up] [DRAWING SETUP]^c^C^p(load "ca11set") [--] ............. ............. ............. ............. ***icon **FURN [FURNITURE:] [CTONE(CHAIR-1)]^c^cINSERT ca3ch-1 DRAG \1;;DRAG [CTONE(CHAIR-2)]^c^cINSERT ca3ch-2 DRAG \1;;DRAG [CTONE(SOFA-1)]^c^cINSERT ca3sof1 DRAG \1;;DRAG

I see said the blind man...For example, Layer names come over with $0$ as if bound...thanks.

If I'm reading the official documentation correctly, the Insert setting only copies the object itself. The Bind setting brings along "named objects" associated with the object, that is, entities you would find in the Design Center, such as linetypes, layers, text styles, etc. You wouldn't notice them immediately, but they could interfere with the existing named objects in your drawing.

Looks neat, but is there any way to run/test it without the custom install? The IT department has us locked away from that type of thing.

Actually prior to NCOPY I used a lisp command called XCOPY that basically did similar operations. Also could someone explain to me what the difference is with NCOPY Settings set to Insert vs Bind. Irregardless of which setting the NCOPY object result is always a non-block object.

- Update to the latest .exe (Add number of copies, add collate) https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FmN_TQNTGGzTXQojuRLd9H4SdH-Hqbov/view?usp=sharing - Update the LISP file. (Update the DCL interface) https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RDGjsKS0RruitLW83pHWcwq74ygik3wu/view?usp=sharing

Merging PDFs is equivalent to publishing.

@BIGAL The code does not work with a number of segments but with an angle increment. Here I chose 36.0 (which is 10 degrees: 360 / 10) which seems to me a reasonable resolution to obtain a limited number of vertices... If you want a finer definition with 5°, simply replace 36.0 with 72.0. for 20° it would be 18.0. The number of segments does not seem appropriate to me because depending on the length of the arc the definition would not be identical.

Block Library pallet - I had that 20 years ago with FastCAD - which inspired me to make something very similar to BigALs - though I think the workings behind are a bit different - might be wrong, BigAl, do you use slide files for the thumbnails? (I remember you giving me a good instruction of them a few years ago now... which I then ignored.... and went with vector images). Can apply any command / LISP to the thumbnails (for example I have a tab 'Get': "Google", "CAD Standards", "Current Folder" which runs just the LISP to open chrome / explorer) - I think BigAl can do the same too. (B&W because I got too lazy to colour them all in)

I use similar and quick select all the time, especially to find objects on the wrong layer or in cluttered locations. Burst is not something I use much at all, but when I do need it, it's a life saver. It's the same as explode, the only difference being it preserves the data in attributes. As far as I know, the only alternative is to retype that information, which is hard to do after you've already lost it.

yes !exactly