Authoring Studio Pro

AutoLISP & DCL Authoring Studio Pro — $149.00

Build your own custom AutoCAD tools with a dedicated workspace for writing, editing, importing, and saving AutoLISP programs and DCL dialogs.

Whether you’re developing a drafting routine or learning to connect a dialog to your code, Authoring Studio Pro brings source editing, starter templates, and file management together inside AutoCAD.

Features

• Separate LISP and DCL Editors: Switch between your program source and dialog source.
• Paired Starter Templates: Generate a basic command and dialog, a rectangle tool with dimension inputs, or a circle tool with radius input.
• Custom Command Names: Assign a command name when creating a starter program.
• Line Editing Controls: Replace, insert, append, duplicate, delete, and move source lines.
• 20-Step Edit Undo: Recover previous buffer edits, imports, and template replacements.
• Import Existing Source: Open your existing .lsp and .dcl files for editing.
• Save to Your Preferred Folder: Choose filenames and destinations for each file, including separate folders.
• Source Structure Checks: Check balanced parentheses, DCL braces, quoted strings, and supported comments.
• DCL Preview: Preview a dialog layout using its dialog identifier.
• Save & Load LISP: Explicitly save and load your source into AutoCAD, then run your custom command.

Your Download Includes

• Authoring Studio AutoLISP program
• Matching DCL interface
• Three example LISP/DCL program pairs
• Installation instructions and operating guide
• ZIP download package

Requirements & Important Details

Requires desktop Windows AutoCAD with Visual LISP and DCL support. AutoCAD LT requires a release supporting those features.

This is a source-code authoring tool. Users write and edit actual code; it does not automatically turn plain-English requests into arbitrary programs. AutoLISP and DCL knowledge is needed for custom development.

The editor is line based. Structure checks do not verify program logic, and dialog previews do not load matching LISP callbacks. Save your work before closing AutoCAD.

Source structure and starter-pair checks have been completed outside AutoCAD. AutoCAD runtime testing is still pending.

Created by Eshean Butler

Residential CAD Solutions