AutoLISP Program For Drawing A Cabinet 1

Eleven Posts

Now you'll get an AutoLISP program for drawing a cabinet. I'm going to talk about it in the following eight posts:

1.   Introduction
2.   Clearing The Screen
3.   Getting The Sizes 1
4.   Getting The Sizes 2
5.   Drawing The Cabinet
6.   Drawing The Top
7.   Drawing The Drawers
8.   Drawing The Handles
9.   Setting The Dimension Variables
10. Dimensioning The Drawing
11. The Complete Program

How The AutoLISP Program Works

First let's tell you how the AutoLISP program works. When the program starts a dialog box is displayed. Here is the dialog box.



In the dialog box a picture of the cabinet is displayed. And also is explained where the sizes of the dialog box can be found.

There are three sizes:

1. Width
2. Overhang
3. Thickness top

The user can fill in the sizes. The user can also set how many drawers he wants in the cabinet: three, four, five, or six.

That is important. The minimum width of the cabinet is 400. Suppose the user enters a width that is less than 400.

If so, then the following dialog box is displayed. And the user can enter an different width.

The user has filled in the sizes and suppose he has wants to have a cabinet with three drawers. The cabinet is drawn. This is how it looks:

The Parts

As you can see in the drawing. The following parts have been drawn:

1. The Cabinet
2. The Top
3. The Drawers
4. The Handles
5. The Dimensions

You also find the dimensions in the drawing of the cabinet. The dimensions have been drawn in the drawing of the cabinet.

Next Posts

We are going to talk about the segments of the AutoLISP program that perform the actions. We are also going to talk about getting the sizes.

The actions will be performed by AutoLISP functions. I'm going to talk about them in the next posts of this series.