Endpoint Tick Marker Free AutoLISP (LISP) for AutoCAD

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Download ENDTICK.LSP
Download ENDTICK.DWG

OVERVIEW

ENDTICK.LSP inserts and aligns the ENDTICK.DWG block at the endpoint of every arc or line in a selection set. It removes duplicate ticks.

ENDTICK is useful for surveying and civil engineering plans to demarcate points of curvature, tangency, et cetera.

The default END-TICK block is a one unit long vertical line with its insertion point at its midpoint. ENDTICK scales ticks to the dimension text height (dimscale * dimtxt), so the default tick will look as big as the current dimension text height. You can make your own ENDTICK block if you prefer some custom shape or size tick.

GETTING STARTED

Download ENDTICK.LSP (save it to your computer) by following the link on this page. Also download ENDTICK.DWG (save it to your computer) by following the link on this page or make your own ENDTICK block.

At minimum, all ENDTICK.LSP needs to work is the ENDTICK block and a line or an arc. Simply load and run ENDTICK.LSP by dragging it from Windows Explorer into your drawing, typing ENDTICK, and following the prompts. That's all there is to it.

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT

ENDTICK.LSP neither creates additional files nor writes to the Windows registry.

DEVELOPMENT NOTES

REVISION HISTORY

Date Programmer Revision
20060914TGH1.0PR. Works only with world UCS and View. No Plines. May leave angular units to radians. No error trapper.

To submit revisions, use the contact form on this web site.

LICENSE TERMS

This program is free software under the terms of the GNU (GNU--acronym for Gnu's Not Unix--sounds like canoe) General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, version 2 of the License.

You can redistribute this software for any fee or no fee and/or modify it in any way, but it and ANY MODIFICATIONS OR DERIVATIONS continue to be governed by the license, which protects the perpetual availability of the software for free distribution and modification.

You CAN'T put this code into any proprietary package. Read the license.

If you improve this software, please make a revision submittal to the copyright owner at hawstom@despammed.com or see www.hawsedc.com.

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 on the World Wide Web for more details..

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