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Please note that the following are examples of what we have created for someone else's needs. Your imagination is the only limit for what we can do for your business operation.  The custom programs and add-ons we have written have helped many companies raise productivity and lower their costs at the same time.  Find out how custom programming can make your business  more profitable, as well as, competitive...e-mail us today

Locker Suite   Collection of routines for individuals in the locker industry to create shop drawings including elevations with greater accuracy and speed. more information...

Screw 2D.exe   Initially created for a mechanical design company in Denver, Colorado: Select the size, pitch, and view designation and this program will insert the desired screw into AutoCAD or DesignCAD at the desired insertion point (depends on shape). No drawing blocks needed. Current thread designations are UTS: UNC and UNF, but can be modified. Programs can also insert washers and distance between fasteners, if desired more information...

EZ BOM.dvb   Initially created for a manufacturing company in Memphis Tennessee: Easily and quickly create bubble or balloon leaders on the fly. No drawing blocks needed. Leader size is based on drawing's dimscale scale factor. Arrowhead and leader line are all one polyline. Item numbers are block attributes and are used to automatically generate the ITEM and QTY sections of the bill of material table. more information...

ApplianceSizer.dvb   Initially created for an architectural firm in Phoenix Arizona: Inserts the appliance you need, allows you to enter custom sizes on the fly. No drawing blocks needed. Standard appliances include clothes washer, clothes dryer, dishwasher, cooktop range, freezer, microwave. more information...

Custom Conveyor.dvb   Initially created for a material handling company in Atlanta Georgia: Inserts the conveyor with the rollers you need, allows you to enter custom sizes on the fly. No drawing blocks needed. more information...

WblockAllBlocks.dvb   Initially created for an engineering company in Memphis Tennessee: Save all blocks in drawing to folder of your choice. Option to automatically rename block if file name already exists.

ChangeAllToNewLayer.dvb   Initially created for an engineering company in Memphis Tennessee: Create a new layer and change all modelspace entities to that new layer.

WebTroller.exe   Initially created for a library in Memphis Tennessee: Enter the URL address of a browser aware document filename that ends with a number and WebTroller.exe's autonumber increment or decrement feature will allow you to easily view the next or previous document in the series (if it exists). Browser aware document formats include: bmp, jpeg, gif, mpeg, html, pdf, doc, xls, postscript, ppt more information...

SpacesBetween.dvb   Initially created for a woodworking shop in Tampa Florida: Enter "overall LENGTH", "NUMBER of objects" and "WIDTH of the objects" and this macro returns and offsets the distance between the objects more information...

Steel 2D.exe   Initially created for a steel distributor in Chicago Illinois: Select the structural shape designation and this program will insert the desired structural steel shape into AutoCAD at the desired insertion point more information...

Lumber 2D.exe   Initially created for a woodworking shop in Tampa Florida: Select the nominal thickness and nominal width of the lumber and this program will insert the actual or "dressed" lumber size into AutoCAD at the desired insertion point (UL, LL, UR,LR, MC) more information...

Plot Tracker.dvb   Initially created for a manufacturing company in Columbus Ohio: This program replaces the AutoCAD's "plot" command and forces users to enter a valid project number prior to plotting.  more information...

DXFlange.exe   Initially created for a manufacturing company in Houston Texas: Select desired pipe size (1/2"-24"), pressure class, and view. DXFlange creates the flange as DXF for you to import into your favorite program that is capable of importing DXF files.  more information...

NPStimate.exe   Initially created for a manufacturing company in Pittsburg Pennsylvania: Estimate Nominal Pipe Size with this handy tool. Select 1/8" to 12" pipe size and enter the cut size in decimal feet. NPS'timate knows the weight/foot and keeps a running total for you. If you make a mistake...no problem just remove that item. You can also easily clear the entire list with one button.  more information...

Dwg_Library.exe   Initially created for a manufacturing company in Los Angeles California: Select any drive or directory that contains DWG files and DWG_Library will show you a thumbnail of any DWG file AutoCAD version 12 thru 2002.  When you have located the DWG file you can double-click on the thumbnail image to open the DWG file.  There is no longer a need to painfully create menu-driven symbol libraries...just create the drawings and let DWG_Library do the work!  more information...

DwgArchiver.exe   Initially created for in-house use: finds all new and changed dwg files in selected directory and subdirectories.  Great for backing up drawings.  more information...

TextCase.exe   Initially created for an architectural company in Denver Colorado: Change the case of selected AutoCAD text to all uppercase or all lowercase.  If you choose to register the program you can also change text to sentence case or title case.  TextCase is a Visual Basic standalone program. The advantage of standalone VB over VBA is that you do not have to continually restart the command. more information...

addLayPrefix.exe   Initially created for an architectural design firm in Lansing Michigan: Visual Basic standalone program for AutoCAD which adds a prefix to all layer names in a drawing. more information...

LT_Calc.exe   Initially created for a manufacturing firm in Tampa Florida: Calculator for AutoCAD LT. more information..

flow.exe   Initially created for a programming outfit in Columbus Ohio: Logic flow block insertion program.  more information..

Txt2AttDef.dvb   Initially created for a cable engineering outfit in San Jose California: Select the text entities that you want converted to an attribute definition.  Copies all properties including color, text style, height, rotation, layer, and text justification.

Att_Increment.dvb   Initially created for an architectural firm in Toronto, Canada:  Enter the attribute name, starting number, and increment factor, then select all blocks in order.  The program then modifies the values of the block's attributes to reflect the values you entered.

MRAS.dvb   Initially created for a land developer in Clearwater Florida: This macro finds the major radius for a sector of an annulus, given the area, minor radius and included angle.

AttNumberIncrement.dvb   Initially created for a civil engineering firm in Vero Beach Florida: Enter the desired block name and attribute tag, then a range of numbers and a factor to increase or decrease those numbers.

LayerSuffix.dvb   Initially created for an architectural company in Columbus Ohio: Creates layers from a user supplied word.  Adds an underscore and then numbers them 1 through whatever you like.

ReloadMenus.dvb   Initially created for a company in the garment district New York, New York: Tired of losing your menu setup, so were many other customers.

Leroy.dvb   Initially created for a civil engineering firm in Seattle Washington: Creates or modifies the standard Leroy fonts (L40-L500) that AutoDesk Land Desktop uses, for the scale of your drawing.

ProfileTools.dvb   Initially created for a civil engineering firm in Seattle Washington: Suite of tools to work with profiles.  Great for those without Land Desktop, or as a intermediary step to defining the external databases.

readFBK.dvb   Initially created for a civil engineering firm in Seattle Washington: Survey field book importer.

CustomPlot.dvb   Initially created for a land developer in Clearwater Florida: Fastest plots available.  When you know which printer, paper, size, rotation, plot style table, etc you want, why NOT just press ONE button?

LayerStates.dvb   Initially created for a mechanical engineering firm in Cleveland Ohio: Save and import ACAD layer states including ON, OFF, and FROZEN.

ExcelExtract.exe   Initially created for a manufacturing company in Clearwater Florida: Custom workbooks and values to extract to AutoCAD from MS Excel.

ExportAECCpts.dvb   Initially created for a civil engineering firm in Baltimore, Maryland: Extract AECC points from AutoCAD.

ArcLenAng.dvb   Initially created for a civil engineering firm in Lakeland Florida: Choose an arc and input a length and this macro will tell you how many degrees to rotate a line from the center of that arc to the beginning of the arc.  More information to come...

AngArcArea.dvb   Initially created for a land developer in Tampa Florida: Choose two arcs that are concentric, enter desired area and this macro will tell you thedegrees of separation required to attain that area.  More information to come...

WorkOrder.exe   Initially created for a design drafting company in Tampa Florida: For drafting and design firms.  Allows your customers to easily create their own work order, taking the burden and partial liability off  you.   More information to come...

Run.exe   Initially created for a manufacturing firm in Tampa Florida: Launch several Windows commandline programs and utilities with ease using this little gem.  More information to come...

ReceiptRecorder.exe   Initially created for a manufacturing firm in Tampa Florida: Helps to ease the burden of inputting receipt information in digital form.  Requires MS-Access 2000+

FootInchCalculator.exe   Initially created for a manufacturing firm in Tampa Florida: Perform mathematical calculations and conversions using this calculator.  Accepts multiple formats as input, even pasted from the clipboard.

AddressExtract.exe   Initially created for a manufacturing firm in Tampa Florida: Extracts e-mail addresses from a variety of files.

DOSname.exe   Initially created for a manufacturing firm in Tampa Florida: Displays the complete DOS name for Windows files.  Ridiculously long input box is perfect for ridiculously long file names.

DistributorPrice.exe   Initially created for a manufacturing firm in Orlando Florida: Program written to help determine total price for a distributor including add-on extras, labor, travel time, profit margin, etc.

ClipFormat.exe   Initially created for a manufacturing firm in Tampa Florida: Manipulates information sent to Windows clipboard.

CommandCenter.exe   Initially created for a manufacturing company in Phoenix Arizona: Program waits a user specified time to check a folder for new files.  These files are instructions to modify existing AutoCAD "template" files.  Very useful on a web server to process customer requests instantly 24-7.

CrateMate.exe   Initially created for a manufacturing firm in Charlotte North Carolina: Program will create a 3D model of a crate based on user dimensions along with bill-of-materials (BOM).

ParcelTools.dvb   Initially created for a land developer in Tampa Florida: Suite of tools to work with parcels.  Great for those without Land Desktop, or as a intermediary step to defining the external databases.

BulkLinetypes.exe   Initially created for a surveying company in Tampa Florida: Create linetypes that include an elevation and are based on a range of elevation.  Creates an AutoCAD linetype (.lin) file.

Text2Att.exe   Initially created for a home builder in Tampa Florida: Little macro that changes text and mtext into attributes.

ACADsettings.exe   Initially created for a design firm in Albuquerque New Mexico: Compares two AutoCAD files and shows the differences in settings.

AC_Open_Save.exe   Initially created for in-house use: Opens and saves multiple AutoCAD files as an earlier version.

autoNumber.dvb   Initially created for an architectural firm in Naples Florida: Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) project for AutoCAD that enables the user to insert numbers using start, end and increment. Start point can either be selected or typed in the textbox. Pro version allows a prefix or suffix to be added to the numbers, select modelspace or paperspace, select font style, enclose text in a circle, square, triangle or hexagon and allow text direction from right to left and top to bottom from start point.

addUpText.dvb   Initially created for a manufacturing firm in Tampa Florida: Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) project for AutoCAD that adds the numeric value of user selected Text and Mtext entities. Very helpful for totals in schedules and bill-of-materials.

addFileContents.exe   Initially created for an accounting firm in Tampa Florida: select two files, enter name of output file. Resulting file contains the contents of both files  more information...

DC_Box.exe   Initially created as a demo tool: draws a rectangle or square in DesignCAD more information...

gauge.exe   Initially created for a mechanical engineering firm in Columbus Ohio: Offsets lines, circles, etc by selected gauge.  more information..

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