Opensource Announcement for AutoCAD AutoLISP Extension

By
Madhukar Moogala

Dear Developers,

Thank you for being part of the Autodesk AutoCAD developer ecosystem.

As part of Autodesk Opensource Initiative, we are glad to announce a new
member to the family, the “VSCode extension for AutoLISP” which is now Opensource in
Github.

This extension adds support for AutoCAD AutoLISP source (LSP) files to
Visual Studio Code. It allows you to edit and debug your lisp programs
with AutoCAD 2021. For information on creating lisp programs for AutoCAD
with the AutoLISP programming language, see the:

• AutoCAD AutoLISP:
  Developer’s Guide
• AutoCAD AutoLISP:
  Reference
• AutoCAD AutoLISP:
  Tutorials

The extension is open source and distributed under
Apache License v2.0. A friendly summary can be found at
tldrlegal.

Your feedback is highly appreciated! Should you have any suggestions,
please create an issue
here.

We welcome contributions through
PR’s for more details please read through the
CONTRIBUTION
guide.

Using VSCode Extension for AutoLISP in AutoCAD

• Setup VSCode Extension
  Installing and configuring the AutoCAD Autolisp VSCODE extension
• Debugging AutoLisp
  Editting and debugging Autolisp files in VSCODE