;;; --------------------------------------------------------------------- ;;; COORDGRID-bgol.lsp ;;; Command: CGRD ;;; ;;; PURPOSE ;;; Draws a full Easting/Northing coordinate grid across a rectangular ;;; extent defined by two picked corner points, at a chosen spacing, ;;; with axis-labeled text along the bottom (Easting, "E") and left ;;; edge (Northing, "N"). Speeds up adding a reference grid to a survey ;;; base map or boundary drawing. ;;; ;;; USAGE ;;; 1. Load this file (APPLOAD or drag-drop onto the drawing window). ;;; 2. Type CGRD at the command line and press Enter. ;;; 3. Pick the Lower-left corner and Top-right corner of the area to ;;; cover. ;;; 4. Enter the grid spacing. ;;; 5. A full set of vertical and horizontal grid lines, rounded ;;; outward to the nearest spacing multiple, is drawn on layer ;;; "BGOL-CGRD", with "E ####" labels along the bottom and ;;; "N ####" labels along the left edge. ;;; ;;; NOTES ;;; - Grid extents are rounded outward to the nearest multiple of the ;;; spacing so lines land on clean round coordinate values. ;;; - This is an original, independently written implementation. ;;; It is INSPIRED by the general idea of coordinate-grid overlay ;;; utilities common in land-survey drafting workflows, but the ;;; code, command name and file name here are new and are NOT ;;; copied from, nor identical to, any specific third-party ;;; product. ;;; ;;; --------------------------------------------------------------------- ;;; Developed and shared for the CAD community by: BGol Community ;;; Community website: https://bgol.in/ ;;; License: Open-source & free to use, modify, and share for all. ;;; Provided "as is", without warranty of any kind. ;;; --------------------------------------------------------------------- (vl-load-com) (defun BGOL:CGRD-EnsureLayer (lname / ) (if (not (tblsearch "LAYER" lname)) (entmake (list '(0 . "LAYER") '(100 . "AcDbSymbolTableRecord") '(100 . "AcDbLayerTableRecord") (cons 2 lname) '(70 . 0) '(62 . 8) ; grey '(6 . "Continuous"))) ) ) (defun BGOL:CGRD-Line (p1 p2 lname / ) (entmake (list '(0 . "LINE") '(100 . "AcDbEntity") (cons 8 lname) '(100 . "AcDbLine") (cons 10 p1) (cons 11 p2))) ) (defun BGOL:CGRD-Text (pt txt ht lname / ) (entmake (list '(0 . "TEXT") '(100 . "AcDbEntity") (cons 8 lname) '(100 . "AcDbText") (cons 10 pt) (cons 40 ht) (cons 1 txt))) ) (defun BGOL:CGRD-FloorTo (v gs) (* gs (fix (/ v gs)))) (defun BGOL:CGRD-CeilTo (v gs) (* gs (1+ (fix (/ v gs))))) (defun C:CGRD ( / p1 p2 gs xmin xmax ymin ymax x y th) (BGOL:CGRD-EnsureLayer "BGOL-CGRD") (setq p1 (getpoint "\nLower left corner: ")) (setq p2 (if p1 (getpoint p1 "\nTop right corner: "))) (if (and p1 p2) (progn (setq gs (getreal "\nEnter grid spacing: ")) (if (and gs (> gs 0)) (progn (setq xmin (BGOL:CGRD-FloorTo (min (car p1) (car p2)) gs)) (setq xmax (BGOL:CGRD-CeilTo (max (car p1) (car p2)) gs)) (setq ymin (BGOL:CGRD-FloorTo (min (cadr p1) (cadr p2)) gs)) (setq ymax (BGOL:CGRD-CeilTo (max (cadr p1) (cadr p2)) gs)) (setq th (* gs 0.08)) ;; vertical lines (constant X) + Easting labels along bottom (setq x xmin) (while (<= x xmax) (BGOL:CGRD-Line (list x ymin 0.0) (list x ymax 0.0) "BGOL-CGRD") (BGOL:CGRD-Text (list x (- ymin (* gs 0.15)) 0.0) (strcat "E " (rtos x 2 0)) th "BGOL-CGRD") (setq x (+ x gs)) ) ;; horizontal lines (constant Y) + Northing labels along left (setq y ymin) (while (<= y ymax) (BGOL:CGRD-Line (list xmin y 0.0) (list xmax y 0.0) "BGOL-CGRD") (BGOL:CGRD-Text (list (- xmin (* gs 0.35)) y 0.0) (strcat "N " (rtos y 2 0)) th "BGOL-CGRD") (setq y (+ y gs)) ) (princ (strcat "\nCGRD: coordinate grid drawn at spacing " (rtos gs 2 2) ".")) ) (princ "\nInvalid grid spacing. Aborted.") ) ) (princ "\nGrid extent not fully defined.") ) (princ) ) (princ "\nCOORDGRID-bgol.lsp loaded. Type CGRD to draw a labeled Easting/Northing grid.") (princ "\n -- Free & open-source, courtesy of BGol Community (https://bgol.in/) --") (princ)