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What is AutoLISP?

April 26, 2017autolisp

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What is AutoLISP?

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AutoLISP is AutoCAD’s inbuilt programming language. AutoLISP is used to create programs that will automatically generate drawings. This is a procedural programming language. It is inbuilt i.e. if you have AutoCAD full version loaded on you computer then AutoLISP is already there. AutoCAD LT version do not have AutoLISP interface. User defined customized commands can be added to AutoCAD using AutoLISP. These customized commands will perform the activities that we want to automate. The very simple example can be creating parametric shapes of any complexity. These shapes will be generated considering the parameters defined and values provided at the time of generation. Why use AutoLISP? / Why learn AutoLISP? When there are number of different environments such as AutoCAD VBA, AutoCAD.Net, ObjectARX, are available for AutoCAD Customization then why should we use AutoLISP? Very true! But if you have noticed, to do programming using any of the other environments you must be aware of the prog