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    Does anyone know how to write a lisp file??

    The attribute extraction routine has functionality built in for doing this. Then you can use that data in an excel file or even access.
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    reducing file size

    I don't know if this can help you or not. If you or others that give you drawings use layer filters that can add a huge amount of space to a cad file. I have seen files go from 4 meg down to 1 after deleting the layer filters. use this following lisp routine to delete them as manually it may...
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    ltscale

    Yes this is controlled with the psltscale command set this to 1 and changing the ltscale to 1. Your viewports ltscales will then be set to the scale of the viewport.
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    How do I lock down toolbars (locations and editing)

    Well I will take a look at it but I am really interested in finding out what he did. There was no externall add-on used with the method he used. Anyone know of a way to do this without additional software?
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    Drafting Standards

    Most mechanical plumbing and piping contractors and engineers I have ever worked for in the past 20 years have used all uppercase. Architects as well. The reason you will see this is because it can be very difficult to see lower case in dark buildings under construction and the whole point in...
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    How do I lock down toolbars (locations and editing)

    I have seen this done may years ago in my autocad class but that was release 12 on windows. My understanding the proffesor did this through windows somehow it was not done through autocad. He wanted to make sure cad was identical on all machines for ease of education. So I know it can be done...

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