Danny Sin was my fist AutoLISP customer. His company was building shutters for shops, steel doors and steel racks.
A Factory For Shutters
Danny had studied at a university in Taiwan. He came back to Malaysia. His father had a factory for shutters.
But his father's factory was a family business. Danny wanted to start his own business. And that is what he did.
Danny's business was doing very well. He was getting a lot of orders. But he felt he had a problem. With AutoCAD.
Problem With AutoCAD
I was like this. A prospect or customer came to him. Looking for a shutter. Danny made an offer and with the offer came a drawing.
The drawing was an AutoCAD drawing. It was a drawing of the shutter that was offered. But creating a drawing took a lot of time.
I had been writing e-mails to AutoCAD users. I told them how they could save a lot of time when they worked with an AutoLISP program.
Writing AutoLISP Programs
Danny was interested. He engaged me for writing AutoLISP programs for him. He was selling different types of shutters.
For each type of shutter a different AutoLISP program had to be written. I had to write five different AutoLISP programs.
I wrote the AutoLISP programs. And then I found out about the steel doors. For them also AutoCAD drawings had to be created.
I wrote an AutoLISP program for creating AutoLISP drawings of steel doors. Those drawings were created in no time too.
Saving A Lot Of Time
Before Danny had his AutoCAD programs, it took a whole day to create an AutoCAD drawing of a shutter or steel door.
The AutoLISP program worked with dialog boxes. So the AutoCAD drawing wasn't create right away. But still a lot of time was saved.
Each AutoCAD drawing was created within one minute. It was no longer a matter of waiting a whole day for a quotation.
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| Warning Don't spend a lot of money on AutoCAD Light. It is only for creating 2D drawings and it doesn't support AutoLISP. There is a very similar CAD program. And that is completely free. The name of the program? DraftSight. How to get it? Do a search on Google for “download DraftSight”. And you will find where you can download the program. |
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Create Drawings When your CAD operators don't create the borders of your drawings, a lot of time is saved. You get your drawings much faster. I have created a program that does exactly that. An AutoCAD drawing has been created and the program draws a border around it. If you want to see how the program works, go to YouTube. You'll find the working of the program here: http://www.youtu.be/O8Zy6n9zS8Q Now the AutoLISP program gives you the choice to select the size of your border. You can select A4, A3, A2, or A1. Maybe you already know the size of the border of your drawing. Maybe all your drawings have the size A1. If so. Let me know. That is important. The program finds the proper scale of your drawing. Or do you already know what the scale always is? I can write the AutoLISP program that you want. The price? I will only charge you RM 600.-. That is less than US $ 200.-. |
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Box Jos van Doorn is an AutoLISP programmer and blogger. He is originally from Holland and now he lives in Malaysia. He is the founder of the Make AutoCAD Fast business. Make AutoCAD Fast is writing AutoLISP programs for AutoCAD users. Make AutoCAD Fast created an AutoLISP program for drawing a border around AutoCAD drawings. The program can be found on YouTube. http://www.youtu.be/O8Zy6n9zS8Q Jos is writing a blog. In it are AutoLISP programs with information and it is about Make AutoCAD Fast. You can find his blog here: http://www.makeautocadfast.blogspot.com Maybe you have a question. Or want to tell me something. You can contact me on this e-mail address: makeautocadfast@ymail.com |
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