VectorScriptTools

VectorScript is the scripting language of the CAD program Vectorworks (by brudgers)

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  • What is the most interesting thing you have created that you are still proud of?
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Sep 2022
    The Kludgeomatic.

    https://github.com/brudgers/VectorScriptTools/tree/master/Kl...

    Vectorworks 2008 was scripted in a Pacal variant that required compiling. Creating a script required many "bureaucratic" operations.

    More bureaucracy to load the script to test it.

    Looking back, I think in all seriousness that punchcards were the point of reference for the programmers who came up with it...that the development tooling was designed to digitalize a punchcard workflow.

    Coming from Autocad, I wanted a scripting workflow that looked like its. Put a list of commands in a text file and they would be run through in order.

    That's the background...well that and the sub-prime mortgage meltdown bringing about a future with no work -- be careful what you ask for.

    The Vectorscript documentation allowed scripting Vectorworks "tables" -- a spreadsheet like data structure.

    Vectorscript also had an evil...I mean eval. [1]

    Thus, Kludgeomatic.

    From within the drawing I could open one those internal "spreadsheets" and create an ordered list of API calls to Vectorworks commands, and run that list with the click of a button.

    Since the spreadsheet was a drawing object, it would be saved with the drawing and could be externalized into a library like an other drawing object for use in other projects.

    I thought I was on the road to fame and fortune.

    I was wrong about that, but it is still really cool.

    [1] Later I wrote a script that could execute arbitrary code the users computer. Digitalized punch cards, like I said.

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