1. Issue the APPLOAD command.
2. Click the [Contents] button under Startup Suite.
3. Click the [Add] button.
4. Navigate to the ToolPac folder and choose "unsupport.lsp".
5. Click the [Add] button.
6. Repeatedly click the [Close] button to return to the command prompt.

1. Issue the APPLOAD command.
2. Click the [Add] button.
3. Navigate to the ToolPac folder and choose "unsupport.lsp".
4. Click the [Open] button.
5. Click the [OK] button to return to the command prompt.

[AL] Arc Length
[CA] Chord Angle
[CD] Concave Direction
[CL] Chord Length
[CP] Center Point
[DA] Delta Angle
[EA] Ending Angle
[EP] Ending Point
[RL] Radius Length
[SA] Starting Angle
[SP] Starting Point
[TL] Tangent Length

Important Note: The ACADAPP program contains low level support routines needed by some AutoCAD functions and should not be unloaded under normal circumstances.

1. Choose Modify Change from the Block section of the ToolPac menu.
2. Specify only the values you wish to change, blank values have no affect.
3. Select the blocks you wish to change using standard selection methods.

Item Description
.BLOCKNAME Block Name
.INSPTX Block X Coordinate Value
.INSPTY Block Y Coordinate Value
.INSPTZ Block Z Coordinate Value
.XSCALE X Scale Factor of Block
.YSCALE Y Scale Factor of Block
.ZSCALE Z Scale Factor of Block
.ROTATION Block Rotation Angle
.COLOR Block Insertion Color
.LAYER Block Insertion Layer
.LINETYPE Block Insertion Linetype
.THICKNESS Block Insertion Thickness
.HANDLE Block Handle

Important Note: Changing attribute properties such as color, etc. will not be immediately displayed. Future inserts will use these properties, and you can use the ToolPac Block Reinsert or Block Replace routines to reinsert the existing occurrences to take on the new properties.

1. Choose the Attribute to EED function from the convert flyout.
2. Select blocks to process. The blocks will be preprocessed to determine the attribute fields available, and to evaluate each field for numeric or character types.
3. Make any changes to the field types as needed. To change types, simply select the field(s) in the list, then choose the Character or Numeric buttons to change the field to that type.
4. Choose the OK button to process the selection set.

Note: The attribute information is removed from the block after completion, and the block is reinserted without attributes.

Layers: If you wish to separate the geometry layers, enter or select new values. Leaving the field blank causes the routine to generate the geometry on the current layer.
Grid: Turn on the desired toggle for grid lines. With full gridlines off, only the "L" shaped x/y grid is drawing. With the toggle on, the full crossing mesh is created.
Other: Turning on the toggle to ignore 0 elevations causes the routine to skip any geometry that is at 0, bypassing the need to freeze those layers.
If the Generate 3DPolyline toggle is turned on, a 3Dpoly following the profile path is created, in the current layer.

The generated table can be manipulated (including copying to the clipboard) using ToolPac's Table processing routines.

Saves selected layouts to separate drawing files using the name of the layout for the file name. The resulting file(s) will only contain one layout, making it the default paper space for previous versions of AutoCAD.

• Source Layouts: Select the layouts to process in the list.
• Save As: Choose the output version format (R13, R14, etc.) Note that since AutoCAD 2000 supports multiple layouts it is not likely that you will use the 2000 option, but it was provided for completeness.
• Erase Outside Viewports: This can help keep each drawings file size down by only including the portion of the model space that actually shows through the viewports. This geometry is not trimmed.
• Purge: Three repetitious purges of all unused references is executed. This can help make the resulting file size smaller.
  Bind Insert Exploded: By turning this on the routine will detach the xrefs and insert them as normal AutoCAD objects. This allows the resulting drawings to be free of xref dependencies and related version problems.
• Erase Off/Frozen: Before the drawings are created all geometry residing on layers that are turned off or frozen is removed.
• Trim & Project: This special procedure will bring the model space geometry to the paper space, trim the geometry at the extents of the viewports, then project everything back to model space. The resulting geometry will have no paper space objects.
• Output Path: Enter the output path or choose the select button to pick it. A temporary or packaging path other the actual project path is often used as these resulting files are to be sent to others with previous versions.

1. Issue the Station Place command from the polyline flyout.
2. Select the polyline to station.
3. Optionally enter a beginning station value.
4. Optionally enter a distance interval, the default is 100.
5. Optionally enter the number of decimal places.
6. Designate if you want to label PC/PT positions.
7. Designate if you want to be prompted for random points (explained below).

If you indicate that you wish to be prompted for random points, the routine will repeatedly prompt:
DS> Pick Point Along Stationed Polyline:

You can then move your cursor over the polyline (the nearest osnap set) and repeatedly pick points.  These points are then labeled with the station along the polyline.

The Tag Editor tool can be a very valuable resource in editing the elevation value of various 3D polylines. It allows you to select a group of 3D polylines, have the elevation appear as temporary text tags. You can click on any of these text tags to change the value of the text and of course the actual 3D polyline vertex elevation. When you are done, the text tags disappear, leaving only your changes to the vertex elevation. Options that are available while inside the tag editor are explained in the sections below.

Procedure:

1. Issue the Tag Editor command from the polyline/3Dpoly flyout.
2. Select as many 3D polylines as desired, the tags will then be drawn.
3. Pick a tag (text object) to change the value of the 3D polyline at that point.
4. Repeat step 3 as many times as desired, press enter or X to exit the routine.

Notes: If you need temporary markers on the vertices, use ToolPac's Polyline Mark Vertices. If you make a mistake in editing, simply undo until changes have been reversed.

Beginning a new drawing is a frequent occurrence. Many users want more control over the initialization process, including preset scales, inserting borders, setting variables, etc. Often this cannot be done by setting up a prototype/template, or it would require hundreds of variations of these drawings to cover all possible setups. These numerous drawings would also be hard to maintain in the event of a simple change in title blocks, etc.

It is with this in mind that ToolPac's New Drawing Setup attempts to provide flexibility and control over the seemingly simple process of starting a new drawing.

Procedure:

1. In the event that the current drawing has not been saved, you will be alerted. This dialog will not appear if the EXPERT variable is set to 5.
2. Type in the new drawing name if it is known, or take the default unnamed drawing.
3. Choose a prototype/template from the pulldown list. See the sections that follow on how to add items to this list.
4. Choose a title block/border from the pulldown list. See the sections that follow on how to add items to this list.
5. Specify an origin point for the insertion of the title/border, or use the default of 0,0.
6. Specify a rotation angle for the title/border, or use the default of 0.
7. Select a discipline for this drawing and choose an appropriate scale factor from the pulldown list. This list exists in a text file named SETUPNEW.SCL in the ToolPac directory and can be changed as desired.
8. Turn on all option toggles desired. See notes below regarding how the scale specified affects the outcome of the new drawing.
9. Choose the OK button to begin the process of setting up the new drawing. All unsaved changes to the current drawing will be lost at this point.

Toggle Notes:

The scale factor affects the variables that are set for the individual toggles. The LTSCALE variable is set to 1/2 of the scale. DIMSCALE and HPSCALE are set to 100% of the scale value. TEXTSIZE is set to the scale times the textsize value in the dialog.

Prototype/Templates:

The files shown in the prototype pulldown on the main dialog are controlled by the list of prototype/templates as established in this subdialog. To add, change, or delete prototypes from this list, use the prototype button to reach this dialog. The operations in this dialog are explained in the paragraphs that follow.

Border/Title Blocks:

The files shown in the border/title block pulldown, on the main dialog, are controlled by the list as established in this subdialog. Operations behave exactly as the setup for prototypes above.

1. If an object with a color of RED is found, it's color is changed to BYLAYER.
2. If an object is in layer LINE, it will be changed to layer PLINE.
3. If objects with a linetype of BORDER is found, it is changed to PHANTOM.

Procedure:

1. Select the group property (COLOR, LAYER, or LINETYPE) to be considered 'found' from the pulldown.
2. Supply the From (to be found) value by typing the value or by choosing it from one of the additional methods explained below.
3. Supply the To (to be replaced if found) value.
4. Choose the ADD button to add the item to the list.
5. Repeat steps 1-4 until all desired instructions are established, then choose SAVE to save the scheme for future use.
6. Choose APPLY and select objects to be processed.

You can select 'From' and 'To' items by choosing the buttons under the edit field. The [Select] button brings up a dialog to choose from, and the [Object <] button allows you to pick an object in the drawing that has the properties.

Warning: Applying the same translation more than once to the same set of objects will yield undesirable results. Build the complete set of instructions, and apply to all objects in one process if possible.

Generates/edits text along irregular shaped objects such as polylines and splines. Text along objects is generated in the current style.

1. Pick a linear object at the starting point. If you wish to edit an existing Text Along Object, select it, and the additional prompting below will be the same.
2. Specify a text height or press enter to take the default shown.
3. Specify an offset distance, this is the actual distance in drawing units from the object to the bottom of the annotations letters.
4. Specify the spacing factor. This is a decimal percentage of the text height used to determine how far apart to place the letters. A number from 0.1 to 0.5 should be appropriate in most cases.
5. Designate if reverse reading is desired. Reverse reading means it begins at the same point, but begins writing in the opposite direction than the object was generated.
6. Designate to generate on top or bottom of the selected object.

The routine will prompt you to select the text objects to break, then the distance between columns.  You may enter or pick this distance.  Be sure to provide adequate distance, a distance slightly larger than the width of the widest resulting column.  Failure to do so will not cause the routine to fail, but some text columns may overlap causing them to be difficult to move.  Once the text is broken into columns, you can use the move command to modify the space between the columns.

Several options are available in the XRef Manager dialog. Each of these options are explained below.

The options presented here are used to accept or dismiss the all activity while inside the dialog box.