Now, most of your vanilla Autocad problems should be solved with ToolPac. However, just in case it isn’t, SuperScript can probably take care of the rest.
I’m not a fan of writing code and stuff. I like to have buttons and simple commands to do everything I need to do. That’s why I love things like ToolPac. There’s a lot of AutoCad powerusers out there who take great pride in being able to write lisp that does everything. But that’s a little bit of a pain in the ass for most users. Most AutoCad users are designers and they really aren’t interested in being programmers. I’m the same way; I don’t want to program, but I will if I have to.
That’s where SuperScript comes in. This program kind of starts getting into the programming realm. Fortunately, it’s not hardcore programming like lisp or visual basic or anything. It’s much, much easier. Actually, it’s more like a macro than programming.
So here’s how it works:
Let’s say there’s something you’re trying to do to a whole bunch of drawing files, but you can’t find a simple button or command to do it in one step. Basically, it’s something very specific and custom that you want to do. All you do is make a list (in chronological order) of the commands that you would actually type in Autocad to make this procedure work. You save this list of commands in SuperScript, load in the list of drawings you want to execute this script on, and the program will apply this “macro” to all of the drawings. It’s awesome.
Combine this with ToolPac, and there shouldn’t be anything you can’t do.
Also, I’d like to mention that I know of two other programs that do this. SuperScript works the best, by far, for me. There’s one by Cadfx called Batch Script Processor which has a nice GUI (compared to SuperScript) and some cool options. But it doesn’t work nearly as well as SuperScript. I always had a lot of problems with that program and I thought it was pretty buggy. SuperScript, on the other hand, has been rock solid for me. The other one is from Autodesk itself, called ScriptPro. I don’t have much experience with it, but I highly doubt it can be better than SuperScript (actually, I’m quite sure of it). The few times I’ve tried using it, I would have to say that it’s not so great.
