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iron.lsp for AutoCAD 14 and AutoCAD 2000
IRON puts objects onto a plane intended for a 2D drawing.
IRON moves or projects the selected points, xlines, rays, lines, circles, arcs, ellipses, 2D polylines, 2D and 3D splines onto the same plane parallel to the current UCS XY plane.
The desired elevation of the plane (Z coordinate in current UCS) may be defined by entering the Z value on the keyboard or by specifying a point that already has the right Z coordinate.
Default value is Z = 0.
The translation or projection direction is perpendicular to the XY plane.
Z coordinates get modified; but all X and Y coordinates in current UCS are maintained.
The drawing shows six lines before and after getting ironed.
circles, arcs, ellipses, 2D polylines and 2D splines will only be changed if they are parallel to the XY plane already;
oterwise IRON considers their current positions as being corresponding to your wishes ("in dubio pro reo").
This is also the reason why 3D polylines, 3D faces, meshes, regions, and other 3D objects are filtered out from selection.
(From the start, the "circle", "arc", "ellipse" and "pline" commands always create objects parallel to the current UCS XY plane. On the other hand, the "spline" command easily may create 3D splines by mistake.)
Objects with non-zero thickness are excluded from selection.
Objects on locked layers
generally do not get modified.IRON has no effect on hatches, dimensions, texts, and blocks.
Use the AutoCAD "appload" command to load the "iron.lsp" file
(in AutoCAD 2000 "iron.vlx" is a faster alternative).
Type "iron" to run the program.
If you want to create a toolbar button for IRON you may use the
"iron16.bmp" and "iron24.bmp" files as button faces.See the AutoCAD online help for further details.
Contents:
iron (15 files, 1 subdirectory)
Images (7 files, no subdirectory)
aLock.png
cssPrint.css
cssScreen.css
example.png
iron16.bmp
iron16.png
iron24.bmp
Beschreibung.html
Description.html
History.txt
iron.fas
iron.lsp
iron.prv
iron.vlx
License.txt
The IRON function was extracted from the TAILORS tools.
See History.txt for a list of modifications of the original version (released in April 2000).
See http://www.polyface.de/ for the TAILORS tools.
"IRON" is free software.
You can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License, as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but without any warranty; without even the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along withthis program ("License.txt"); if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
Author: Armin Antkowiak, Berlin
info@polyface.de
03 October 2000
"AutoCAD" is a registered trademark of AutoDesk, Inc.
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