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  1. plight

    SUBTRACTING ".dwg" FROM DWGNAME EXPRESSION

    Thanks estassoc. The setup is: I have a dwg file that is the titleblock. It consists of the geometry for the border and title areas, attributes to enter the checker's name etc. when it is inserted as a block, text, and rtext to give it a plot stamp, and pull in the date. I currently have an...
  2. plight

    SUBTRACTING ".dwg" FROM DWGNAME EXPRESSION

    I kind of knew that would come up. Reason I wanted to use diesel, was to have rtext pull this into the titleblocks in a project. How can I use lisp in a block? I just want the users to insert the titleblock, and have it spit out the project number. Any help would be great!
  3. plight

    SUBTRACTING ".dwg" FROM DWGNAME EXPRESSION

    ok, what I need is a diesel expression that can stip out all of the folders except for the last one in the dwgprefix variable. i.e. dwgprefix returns: P:\projects\2003\client\job#\job#.dwg I want to strip out everything but the job#. This is a little more complicated than mathmatical...

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