14 polished LISP commands for daily AutoCAD work, text cleanup, rotation, area rounding, drawing QA, block-attribute exports, room data and black-and-white plot prep. Single download, no sign-up required.
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Docuex is a UK CAD conversion company. We live inside AutoCAD all day, and over the years we've built dozens of small LISP utilities to scratch our own itches. We've polished the best of them and released them free because, frankly, most of the free LISP available online is bug-ridden, undocumented or stuck on AutoCAD versions from a decade ago. We thought we could do better.
No paywall, no email gate (the form is optional). If a tool saves you ten minutes, that's win enough for us. If you ever need a custom LISP built for your workflow, that's where we charge, see below.
DX- to avoid collisions with your existing macros.C:\Docuex\LISP\).APPLOAD, browse to that folder and load docuex-tools.lsp.DX-HELP at any time to see the full command list inside AutoCAD.All commands are prefixed DX- to avoid collisions with your existing macros. Type DX-HELP inside AutoCAD for the reference any time.
| Commands | What it does | LT? |
|---|---|---|
DX-TC DX-UPPER DX-LOWER DX-FIRSTCAP DX-UPPERALL | Text case conversion, Title Case, UPPERCASE, lowercase, First letter cap, bulk uppercase | ✓ |
DX-R180 DX-R90 DX-RCUSTOM | Rotate selected text around its own centre, keeps position, changes orientation only | ✓ |
DX-FLIPREADABLE | Rotate whole drawing, then auto-flip any upside-down text back to readable | |
DX-RN DX-RNP DX-RAREA | Round numbers in TEXT, MTEXT and DIMENSIONS, whole numbers, custom precision, area-style | ✓ |
DX-TSUM DX-TSUMALL | Sum numbers found inside selected text (largest-per-text or every number) | ✓ |
DX-TCENTER DX-MTCENTER | Place TEXT or MTEXT at the geometric centre of selected polylines | ✓ |
DX-MOVE2CENTRE | Auto-detect text inside polylines and move it to the geometric centre | partial |
DX-CHECKDIMOV | Find dimensions with manually-overridden text, flag to a review layer | ✓ |
DX-CHECKOVERLAP | Find overlapping polylines, optionally highlight them in red, QA tool | |
DX-EXPLODEALL DX-EXPLODEPICK | Recursive explode, handles nested blocks until none remain | ✓ |
DX-HATCHLAYER DX-HPCHECK | Force HPLAYER to "Use Current" so new hatches land on the active layer | ✓ |
DX-BW DX-BWSEL | Black & white plot prep, recolours entities to 7, fills to 8, strips MTEXT colour codes | |
DX-ATTEXPORT DX-ATTEXPORTBLK | Export block attributes to CSV (all blocks, or filtered by block name with wildcards) | ✓ |
DX-ROOMUPDATE | Update any block's attributes from a CSV file, header-driven, works for any block | ✓ |
DX-EXPORTROOMS DX-EXPORTROOMSJSON | Export polyline rooms with calculated area + text labels found inside, to CSV or JSON | ✓ |
LT column: ✓ = works in AutoCAD LT, blank = needs full AutoCAD (Visual LISP / ActiveX), "partial" = works for some entity types only.
If the free tools save you time but you've got a workflow they don't quite cover, we build bespoke LISP utilities for clients, automated layer cleanups, project-specific block managers, batch operations across hundreds of drawings, custom DWG/DXF export pipelines. Tell us what you do every day that bores you, and we'll quote it as a fixed-price job.
Yes. No sign-up, no payment, no watermark, no daily limit. Use them as much as you like, on as many computers as you like. We ask only that you don't rebrand or resell them, see the licence inside the download.
Most tools do. The exceptions are DX-FLIPREADABLE, DX-CHECKOVERLAP, DX-MOVE2CENTRE (MTEXT support), and DX-BW / DX-BWSEL, these use Visual LISP / ActiveX, which AutoCAD LT does not run. Everything else (text case, rotation, rounding, sums, explode, hatch, attribute export, room data) works fine in LT.
AutoCAD 2018 and later. Earlier versions may work but we don't test against them.
Only if you give it to us via the form, in which case we use it once to email the download link and we may occasionally let you know about a meaningful update or bug fix to the tools. You can unsubscribe any time. If you don't want to share your email, the direct download link works without one.
You can modify them freely for your own internal use. You may not redistribute or resell them, in either original or modified form. We want a single canonical download location so that bug fixes reach everyone. Full terms in the LICENCE.txt inside the zip.
Probably, yes. Bug fixes within version 1.x will be free and delivered via email if you opted in. Major new tools may or may not be added to this free pack depending on what makes sense.
Email us at info@docuex.co.uk with a short description of what you'd like automated. We'll usually reply within a day with clarifying questions and, once we understand the scope, a fixed-price quote. Typical custom utility jobs are £200-£800 depending on complexity. The result is yours to use, modify and keep as long as you like.
Email info@docuex.co.uk with the command name, a description of what happened, and ideally the AutoCAD version you're on. We don't promise a fixed response time on free tools but we usually address real bugs within a few days.