Just to confuse the situation even further, look at the following macro:- ^c^c^cinsert;600;\\;;leader;\end;\;;n This inserts a standard symbol 600.dwg (weld symbol) at a user selected insertion point, and of a user selected X scale. Y scale and rotation are defaults. 600.dwg has 1 attribute and at t...

Avaernes You state "I believe "\\\" is part of a DIESEL expression (enhanced macro language for Autocad). I don't think it is supported in Intellicad." Why does the macro:- ^C^C^Clayer;set;ar7;;color;blue;linetype;set;bylayer;;-style;ductno;;100;;;;;{;}text;\\\ work? and pause fo...

CW NOT MUCH PROGRESS YET I've looked at your macro and found a couple of MINOR problems, i/ Icad appears to only recognise COLOR not COLOUR. ii/ I have added an extra ";" highlighted with {} prior to calling the "text" command. Otherwise all looked ok, however your tripple \\\ wa...

Tooldesigner, My first thought would be to use Attributes, these could be set to constant & invisible what ever suits your method of working, then you could view the data later. Also,if you needed too, you could then Extract the data stored within the block (attributes) to a parts list (BOM) on ...

CW

If you wish to email a copy of one of your problem macros I will offer any help I can.

Steve N

Does your problem macro have pauses (\) for attributes? I have found problems in this area.


Steve N