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Excellent walkthrough — thank you for sharing thes...

2025-11-22T02:52:52.590-05:00

Excellent walkthrough — thank you for sharing these steps in such a clear and detailed way. The way you break down the uninstalling process for Autodesk products (uninstalling add-ins first, then the main apps, then cleaning up folders & registry) is especially helpful. For someone preparing a clean slate for a fresh install, your tips on backing up customizations and restarting between major steps are spot on.
I found the section on deleting leftover folders like C:\Program Files\Common Files\Autodesk Shared and the registry cleanup to be particularly useful — often people skip those and end up with ghost files or install issues.
One suggestion: perhaps a reminder that this kind of deep cleanup should be done with care (especially registry edits) and possibly a disclaimer for users who aren’t comfortable with advanced OS maintenance. It would make the post even more user-friendly.
Great job — this guide will save a lot of headaches for anyone dealing with stubborn Autodesk uninstall problems. Looking forward to reading more of your IT tips & tricks!

"Great to see such a well-organized list of i...

2025-08-13T06:21:56.782-04:00

"Great to see such a well-organized list of installed programs! It’s clear and easy to navigate, making software management much simpler."

Create a Field with settings as you want them and ...

2025-01-20T13:25:58.726-05:00

Create a Field with settings as you want them and look at the field code and use that. See screenshot in this post.

looking to run this on Civil3D 2025 in m2, but the...

2025-01-20T12:39:10.548-05:00

looking to run this on Civil3D 2025 in m2, but the command seems to give me a value where the decimal place is off. Is there an updated code, as "%lu2%pr1%ps[,m²]%ct8[0.001]\" is not working

Thank you

2024-08-04T09:28:47.427-04:00

Thank you

Or: (setq jtbfieldformula ">%).Area \f &qu...

2024-06-05T16:07:04.914-04:00

Or: (setq jtbfieldformula ">%).Area \f ""%lu2%pr3%ps[, AC]%ct8[2.295684113865930E-005]"">%")

Is this what your code change look like? (setq jtb...

2024-06-05T16:04:46.911-04:00

Is this what your code change look like? (setq jtbfieldformula ">%).Area \f ""%lu2%pr3%ct8[2.295683999999998E-005]"">%")

Yes, As I mentioned earlier, but for more detail.....

2024-06-05T14:46:28.535-04:00

Yes, As I mentioned earlier, but for more detail...
Feild category: Object>Object type: Polyline> Property: Area> Format: Decimal> Precision: 0.000>
Additional Format...Conversion Factor: 1/43560 > Additional text...Suffix: AC> Thousands: ','

Jack, what Field expression do you get if you manu...

2024-06-03T16:07:20.469-04:00

Jack, what Field expression do you get if you manually change it as you want on a field? Did you try it exactly as that?

Starting, this is a great lsp. I've been using...

2024-06-03T12:20:30.868-04:00

Starting, this is a great lsp. I've been using it for Square Footage for a long while.
I was wanting to use this for 3 decimal; Acres(conversion factor: 0.00002295684 [or] 1/43560) which codes as...
%lu2%pr3%ps[, AC]%ct8[2.295683999999996E-005]%th44">%
When loaded...
AreaText.lsp successfully loaded.
Command: ; error: misplaced dot on input
I have attempted changing in brackets to 0.00002295684 with no success.
Suggestions?

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2023-11-17T12:22:52.608-05:00

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2023-11-17T11:13:41.182-05:00

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I worked at Autodesk. Chris helped put on the VPL ...

2023-08-05T22:55:18.214-04:00

I worked at Autodesk. Chris helped put on the VPL glove and the headset. Just the way I remember him!

See http://blog.jtbworld.com/2007/10/customize-are...

2023-07-24T04:23:55.502-04:00

See http://blog.jtbworld.com/2007/10/customize-areatextlsp-for-autocad.html

Hi I have a question on how to show the area unit ...

2023-07-24T02:54:30.975-04:00

Hi I have a question on how to show the area unit sqaure meter. I am using sqaure centimeter as my working units, so it always show square centimeter as the result. But in my country we use sqaure meter as area unit or another special unit that is not familiar in other countries. Is it possible to share how to modify the units in lisp?

Tried .\folderdestination Instead of C:\folder1\...

2023-06-26T10:15:38.734-04:00

Tried .\folderdestination

Instead of C:\folder1\folderdestination

but doesn´t work

Try with a relative path and see.

2023-06-26T09:18:26.118-04:00

Try with a relative path and see.

Is it possible to save .bak file into a relative p...

2023-06-26T04:20:17.889-04:00

Is it possible to save .bak file into a relative path?

Nice post thank you Wendy

2023-06-01T16:21:17.452-04:00

Nice post thank you Wendy

Please email us so we can discuss this further.

2023-02-09T20:01:04.978-05:00

Please email us so we can discuss this further.

Is it possible to have the Export Data options so ...

2023-02-09T18:53:08.599-05:00

Is it possible to have the Export Data options so that when a save is applied to a sheet set the updated export files are created and ovewrite the previous ones. We have a number registers that reference the excel data outputs and it would be great to have them updated whenever a change is made to the Sheet Sets.

It's not possible.

2022-12-16T04:31:02.436-05:00

It's not possible.

How to equivalent $(substr,$(getvar,ctab),1, 5) ?

2022-12-16T03:00:39.292-05:00

How to equivalent $(substr,$(getvar,ctab),1, 5) ?

Thanks

2022-11-25T13:43:45.207-05:00

Thanks

Good apps

2022-11-19T01:39:16.749-05:00

Good apps