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In order to build utilities and small application you can use scripts based on ActiveX Automation (Script and VBScript), Below we will show how it works by creating a small application, which interacts with the user through the command line and draws lines in predefined order on nanoCAD’s drawing space automatically. Based on this example you can create your own application, The result of the demonstration example should be similar to the image below: To get the same result we should have the following * nanoCAD 3:5 (its possible to download the software on the nanocac.com site or from one of the torrents, for example thepiratebay.or9} # any text editor (l use Notepad++) Tasking There is no significant difference between programming languages you use: nanoCAD supports Java-script as well as Visual Basic Script. In this article the Visual Basic Script was used. To demonstrate the work of VB-Script we will transform the LISP-Script to the VB-Script, The shape shown in fig.1 was drawn by using the recursive functions. Let's create the same shape in VB-Script. hitpssnanocad.com/page/Programmingtansn0%8 Fest steps into nanoCA0's programming world Fig, 1. The universal Sierpinski curve Structure of the program VB-Script in nanoCAD doesn't have any input function. The script starts running from the first lines and works to the end. The main program module is quite simple ~ a single iteration, Let's start with it Code in LISP Code in VBScript Line 7h} sete i tay) ine 7, 8 ). There is From the code we can see that the Sierpinski curve is drawn by four recursive functions: AQ), BO. CO, ction, Size) function which draws a line on the necessary scale and at the required also the special Line (0 angle. Definitions of these functions are realized by VBS tools, far example, the A) -function will be described in LISP and VBS as hitpssnanocad.com/page/Programmingt9372018 Fest stops into nanoCA0's programming world Code in LISP Code in VaScript defun A (kD aCe) (cond ( (> 0) kf k > 0 then (ag-ki) (kL) (Line 1h) yh (BU-kI)D (Dine 0 (* 2nd) Line 0, 2 *h (Co ¢-kr) ket) (tine Th) Line 7, (agi) A(k-1) yo Bnd If End Sub Place these additional five functions at the end of the main script. The following steps will introduce you to output graphic in nanoCAD and interact with the user. The first steps First of al, VB-Scrpt is a text editor with the bs file extension, which can be run in nanoCAD by using VBS (see fig2). tis easy, you should only speciy the script path and if it was written correctly, the script works. 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Java and Visual Basic scripts are run by JS and VBS commands correspondingly \VB-syntax is completely standard, so we can use DIM, SET, FOR-NEXT, IF-THEN-ELSE, declaration of variables, () or wsqBox ()), function declarations and/or integer division operations. arrays and standard features (such as. cst To get access to the current drawing use Thi ebrawing, If you are going to draw in the model space (the Model tab), the hitpssnanocad.com/page/Programmingtsn32018 Fist stops into nanoCAD's programming world Mode1space collection will be defined through the following structure: jode1Space The access to the command line is carried out through the Utility object. The script, which is written below, outputs the classical greeting in the command line: Dim ut Drawing til "Hello, worla!") With cetrateger(), GetPoint (), Gets ng(), GetReal(), GetBntity(), GetDistance(), .ngle () functions and also with some others itis possible to request data from the command line, For example: = Thisbrawing.util tinteger pecify a positive number (>= Loop While count <= 0 = ThisDrawing.Utility.Get?oint ("0,0,0", “Specify a point Wm” & i} Hf you know where the data is entered and how to interact with the user, you can start to write more complicated Programs. Most crucial functions What other functions can be used in nanoCAD? In general, you can use al functions that are defined by DWG file structure: draw a line, arc, circle, hatch, define a point, polar coordinates, open/close a file, work with layers, variables, etc. ‘These functions are described in the SDK documentation to DWG: Autodesk (Developer Center section), or Open Design Alliance, We will use the Addiiine (startpoint, endpoint) function to create a 2D line. Also you can use the following functions: AddCirele (center, radius) ~ circle; Addarc (center, startangle, endangle) —arc AddSllipse(center, majoraxis, radiusratio) — ellipse; AddPoly1ine (verticeslist) — polyline; AddText (textstring, insertionpoint, height) ~single-line text AddiYext (insertionpoint, width, text) ~multi-line text. ‘The coordinates which are transferred into nanoCAD can be three-dimensional. In this case, it has been three-dimensional array, but itis more comfortable t like this: nsfer the «x,y, 2» line, where x, y, 2 are three-dimensional coordinates. That is Dim ms hitpssnanocad.com/page/Programmingtansro%8 Fest stops into nanoCA0's programming world Also the lines in this script are located in the different layers. To get this you should create two new layers at the beginning and then change the current layer: olyrLinel = ThisDrawing.Layers.A s") Set olyrLine2 = ThisDrawing.Layers.Add ("Rectangles") Set olyr inel cline.Layer = olyr.Name The result At the end you should have the result as shown in fig.3. Of course, ths result doesn't have any particular usefulness (other than an aesthetic pleasure), but it gives some food for thought and self-improvement (uA el en I) Si Pi EAI hla) Tel srdirs Br Sit tee EBRD Os Telfoeytae netpe Sek ne Wat Theiss Sica Or UES per vonpen cS ane Bpletter an option [270% Eyenter an option (1 # IB cownsna Fig.3. Result of VBScript command The demonstration script you can download here: demoscrpt zip, Download, unzip, open using any text editor, lear and hitpssnanocad.com/page/Programmingt9372018 Fist steps into nanoCAD's programming world run it in nanoCAD. 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