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30th May 2017, 11:06 PM #1Product designer retired
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Autocad R14 users
Dear members, does anyone have a copy of MCR.lsp I can have a copy of? It's for Autocad R14.
It's a lisp routine for Move and rotate or Copy and rotate objects.
I have found a copy of this routine on the web and can copy it by highlighting it, then I get stuck.
I can save it to Notepad then but can't transfer the file to a USB stick. There's no facility for save to
Ken
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31st May 2017, 12:21 AM #2
Suggest you try Draftsight, its free, less resource hungry, saves as dwg, 99.99% same as R14
The person who never made a mistake never made anything
Cheers
Ray
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31st May 2017, 01:20 AM #3Product designer retired
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Prefer R14
Thanks Ray, I have Draftsight but prefer my old Autocad R14. I have it customised to the hilt where simple commands are reduced to one or two key strokes.
I'm not sure if Draftsight can be customised to the same extent.
Am still hoping someone can help me overcome my problem in post #1
Ken
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31st May 2017, 01:47 AM #4Intermediate Member
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Post a link to the file and I'll repost as a .lsp. attachment.
GENE
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31st May 2017, 07:36 AM #5
Ken, try Nanocad, it's for free to download. I use it.
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31st May 2017, 11:32 PM #6Product designer retired
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Hi Gene,
Here is the link to the MCR.lsp file. It's post #6
Move/Rotate Copy/Rotate lsp
Much obliged,
KenLast edited by neksmerj; 1st June 2017 at 11:07 PM. Reason: added link to post
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Hi Gene,
Many thanks for that, however I can't seem to unpack the file to Autocad R14 support folder, it just won't let me do it. It says I don't have permission to do this!
Any chance you could re-post this lsp file not compressed?
KenLast edited by neksmerj; 1st June 2017 at 11:18 PM. Reason: Added "don't have permission"
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1st June 2017, 11:38 PM #9Product designer retired
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I'm still having difficulty doing anything with "easymike's29" MCR.lsp file.
I can view the text of this lsp file, I can highlight all the text, but when I try to paste it to a USB stick, there's no option to "send to or paste"
What am I doing wrong?
Ken
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neksmerj
Check your PM box.
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2nd June 2017, 11:45 PM #11Product designer retired
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I'm currently in conversation with "easymike29" trying to solve a simple problem. Perhaps others can help also.
What I'm trying to do is, copy a file from a USB stick and paste it to Autocad as follows
1. Using File Explorer, navigate to USB stick and right click the Mcr.lsp file and click copy. I presume the file is now on clip board.
2. Using File explorer, navigate to programs/AutocadR14/support/Acad14.lsp
3. Open the Autocad14 file and scroll to the bottom of the text
4. Place cursor at bottom of text.
5. Right click mouse looking for paste but paste is greyed out
I'm stuck, any ideas?
Ken
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2nd June 2017, 11:58 PM #12GOLD MEMBER
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Sounds like you are trying to paste a file (MCR.lsp) into a file (Autocad R14) I would expect that you can paste the contents (text) of MCR.lsp into into Autocad R14 but I don't know what that would achieve.
You can't paste a file into text. You can paste a file into a directory or paste text into a file.
I would expect that you should add the MCR.lsp file into the Autocad R14 directory.
That's my guess as my knowledge of Autocad is in the single digit versions.
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Hi Bohdan,
If I copy all the text from Mcr.lsp and try to paste it into Autocad14/support/Acad.lsp at the end of that text, I get a message saying I don't have permission, contact the owner or similar text.
I can't win
Ken
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3rd June 2017, 09:36 AM #14
Why don't you keep it as a separate lsp and load it when you need it via a toolbar button.
I have hundreds of lisp routines in my Acad.lsp to load automatically but found that if I tried to change/alter/customise one of the routines and make an error.....eg. miss a bracket or wrong variable type, I stuff up the Acad.lsp for loading.
I write all my lisps as individual and load each time via the toolbars. The speed of computers these days aren't hindered doing it this way.
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3rd June 2017, 09:24 PM #15Product designer retired
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skot, thanks for your suggestion, but would prefer it to be loaded each time I open a drawing. As an aside, my acad.lsp file fails to load. When I view the file of about 30 lines, part way down is this line.
(load "mcr") ;load Move, Copy, Rotate
I'm assuming that acad.lsp fails to load is because it can't find the mcr.lsp file.
I have another file called acad14.lsp which contains many lines of text. I'm unsure what all these lisp routines do.
I'm not sure where to place the new mcr.lsp file, into acad.lsp or acad14.lsp or maybe it doesn't matter.
After all, the lisp files are just text files, as far as I know.
Ken
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