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Achievements
Some of the commands above – layout, shademode, viewports layer, model space, and paper space – are debugged and added in the MtoATranslator. The processes of creating of layout sheets, setting shademodes, and switching between model/paper spaces are automated.
Future Goals
As this project is in the beginning stage, there will be many challenges to confront.
<Final Example, drawn by Gonzalo Caprario, will be linked>
1. The MtoATranslator should be constantly updated as new commands for paper space and plot are found. Also, with current information in AutoCAD, we can only generate one view in one paper space. Considering that the plants have many components, such methods can result in numerous layouts causing inefficiency of our codes. We need to find commands that create and edit multi view ports in the paper space so that we can put two or three minor components in one paper space
2. A method for putting more than one viewport in one layout sheet should be fuond.
3. The commands that add and edit texts in AutoCAD will be added in MtoATranslator.
4. The dimension commands will be debugged. This task requires careful calculation to estimate the location of the dimension texts.
5. Following the dimension, the texts will be added.
6. The styles for dimensions and texts will be automatically set.