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Keywords: AutoCAD, AutoLISP, DWG tools
Summary: Educational AutoCAD related info and tools.
General Docs, AutoLISP library tutorials, tools, programs, compilers, DWG tools, news collection, AutoLISP FAQ, AutoLISP Stdlib

Contents

• comp.cad.autocad AutoLISP FAQ (Check this out first)
• stdlib (standardization effort for an AutoLISP programmers library )
• AcadWiki (edit the site yourself)
• Lisp programming tools (editors, checkers, corman lisp, ...)
• Lisp/Ads programs (not Cadalog/Cadsyst, just some goodies for europeans)
• AutoLISP code collections (var. magazines, AutoDESK goodies, ...)
• Tutorials (some online resources)
• Docs (+ dxf specs, bug lists, translation tables, AutoDESK documents, ...)
• Tricky AutoLISP examples (some goodies, AutoLISP vs. Lisp, Common Lisp links)
• AutoLISP compilers (Visual Lisp, ACOMP and Vital Lisp)
• ADS/ARX (various libraries and extensions, geometry)
• Fulltext search (glimpse engine, over the whole tree or subtrees)
• comp.cad.autocad news archive (better do a search there)
• Dos tools (command line progs for dwg's, hpgl, fonts, ...)
• ADGE (local stuff for the old AutoDesk Developers Group Europe)
• Other acad sites (some links)

Introduction

I've got free diskspace here, so I decided to publish some important AutoCAD utilities and information I collected over the years.

• The comp.cad.autocad AutoLISP FAQ
• The AutoLISP Standard Library
• cca glossary description about words used in cca, the web and god and the world, may be of interest for internet newbies.
• Collected comp.cad.autocad postings (still messy).
  This was the stone-aged official AutoCAD-FAQ by Peter Sheerin, but the FAQ is in development...
  AutoDESK provides an technical document pool too but their url names change often.
• Autodesk newsgroups: The new Autodesk WebX news interface, the private usenet autodesk.autocad.customization customization newsgroup and the autodesk.autocad.autocad2000 moderated newsgroups. Also see the official Visual Lisp 2000 FAQ and the ObjectARX/DBX FAQ.
• Autocad 2000 Support Assistance (zipped winhelp files per ftp download, 1,5MB). This is something like a "AutoCAD 2000 FAQ". Quite useful. AutoCAD 2000 users already have it in their help directory. The ASA is practically the same as the <some words> online technical solution index</some words> but created for real human beings.

What's new?

See /wiki/RecentChanges from now on. The static website is only updated sporadicly.
March 2002:

• Uploaded more goodies into code/rurban/
  

The "what's new" history

Other recommended sites to search / read

• AutoCAD Plugin Store by beyond.com. This is the "official" tools site.
• CADalog - The AutoCAD Shareware Clearinghouse
• CAD Depot formerly known as "Rolling Stock Software" aka cadsyst

• UpFront ezine
• Tenlinks The Ultimate CAD Directory
• Links²Go
• CADENCE Magazine
• CADALYST Magazine

• Other AutoCAD related sites - all the links. This link will be changed to /wiki/AutoCadLinks soon.
• Online Access to some Search Engines

This is an academic site, so please don't expect any ad's. Our sponsor is the ZID (central computing services) and Inst. f. Urban Planning, Environm. Studies and Conservation, Fac. of Architecture, TU-Graz, Austria, but we are in fact a completely independent students server. (Die legendären autonomen Architektur Zeichensäle der TU Graz. Eh' scho' wissen.)
From 2002 on I'll work for the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, but this site will stay here as it is. Maybe I will have more time in vienna to work in lisp and CAD (AutoCAD/Inventor), but mostly I'll do something more interesting.

There are no fancy layouted images or tables in these pages to increase the information/byte rate. Some guys really got a terrible connection from their providers or to europe.
"As the Chinese say, 1001 words is worth more than a picture." - John McCarthy

Have you already tried the free URL-Minder Service to be notified when this page has been changed?

I was member of the ADGE, the AutoCAD Developers Group Europe and collected some information about ADGE and their members.

You might want to view or leave a note in our Guestbook.

We've got an FTP server too on this linux box. This directory here is linked to the pointer ftp://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/pub/ but clicking on the executables should download the files too.
If the helper application/zip is not defined, simply click on the "Save to disk" button. But if you see garbage on the screen (netscape...) use this FTP link. Some Windows Browsers apply the extension .DOC to Winword.

Author: Reini Urban <rurban@x-ray.at> Created: 29.Dez 95, Last modified: Wed Mar 27 16:47:36 GMT 2002