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Two different methods are available to create stone walls in MicroSurvey CAD 2005 with the addition of the following Lisp routine or the use of a stone wall hatch pattern.
Here is a sample of a stone wall consisting of stone symbols inserted along an existing line, and a filled section with a stone hatch:
The yellow line was constructed by using the Lisp routine you can download here. You also need the block file. Download the stone wall symbol here.
Copy the two files to your MicroSurvey CAD 2005 main directory. To load the command type the following at the command line:
(load "swl.lsp")
and press enter. To run the command type
swl
at the command line and press enter. The program will ask you for a line to draw on top of. Set your layer before running the command. When you select a line the program inserts a block called "stone.dwg" into the drawing and scales it so it can be duplicated along the line using the array command. Each time you run the command it will ask you to choose a line. Since the symbol is re-inserted each time at a slightly different scale (computed so an even number of stones can be arrayed along the line) you will be asked if you want to redefine the symbol. Answer Yes.
If you want to insert your own symbol, you will need to modify the lisp routine. Just open it up and look for the word "stone.dwg" in the file. If you use your own symbol, you will need to scale it so it is the same size as the "stone.dwg" symbol.
You can download the stone wall pattern here. Copy the stone.pat file to the "Patterns" directory below MSCAD2005.
If you define a closed polyline it is easy to use as a boundary for the stone wall. The pattern needs to be inserted at a scale much larger than 1.0 to get good results.
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