#Cad Customizing
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Hey Folks,
I'm doing some searching and prospecting for a CAD package for our
workplace and have some questions about what AutoCAD can do.
Let me set up the scenario, I work for Aerotronics Systems, an avionics
shop in Arlington, Tx. We do installation of radios and navigation
equipment in aircraft. We are constantly egineering drawings for different
rdio setups in hundreds of different airplanes. What I want to do is have
a program that I can enter the type of radio it is, what other type's of
radios it will connect to and have the program bring up a whole
interconnect diagram.
I'm a C programmer and understand that you can write modules for A-CAD,
is it possible to do what I have described with AutoCAD? Any information
will be helpful, and if AutoCAD can do what we want I'll place an order.
Thanks, Brian Emert Aerotronics Systems, Inc.
Brian,
I work for IFR Systems, Inc. in Wichita, KS (you may have seen some of our
avionics or communication test equipment).
We use AutoCAD for everything from Schematics, Printed Circuit Design,
Mechanical Design, Production process, and Technical Publications.
It is my humble opinion that you will find AutoCAD to be the best
roll-yer-own CAD package you can find on the market!
Dave L.
Brian:
If you can dream up the algorithms, then you can almost certainly do it in
AutoLISP and/or ADS. AutoLISP is a LISP interpreter built into AutoCAD, and
ADS (AutoCAD Development System) is a new feature of AutoCAD Release 11
which allows you to write programs in C. Of course you'll have to learn
AutoLISP or C if you don't know them already, or possibly hire someone to do
the customization anyway.
– Mark M.
P.S. I moved your message to section 8: Applications.
– Mark M.