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These are amazing tips. Did not know about the majority of these. Thanks!

Just wanted to confirm that this tool runs under wine on OSX using a prefix with a win32 architecture and winetricks to install dotnet40 and gdiplus_winxp. Thanks for your hard work building this tool. The building designer was exactly what I was looking for.

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It looks like ahk doesn't like the ^bLeft part, switch it to just ^Left (^Right, ^Up, ^Down), and it works, I just tested it.

You are not telling it what direction to go. Try this for a bit more control rather than just 20 in a line.
$^bLeft:: ProcessEvent("Left","+s")
$^bRight:: ProcessEvent("Right","+s")
$^bUp:: ProcessEvent("Up","+s")
$^bDown:: ProcessEvent("Down","+s")

ProcessEvent(direction, type)
{   
    Send {Enter}
    Sleep 50
    Send {Enter}
    Sleep 50
    Send %type%
    Sleep 50
    Send {%direction%}
    Loop
    {
        if not GetKeyState(direction, "P")
            break 
        Send {Enter}
        Sleep 50
        Send {Enter}
        Sleep 50
        Send %type%
        Sleep 50
        Send {%direction%}
    }
}

Basically this is the standard rewall script. You set it up exactly the same as you did before by doing b -> S, then hold your crt+b down and press the direction you want to go.

The cool thing about this is that you can add something like
$^wLeft:: ProcessEvent("Left","w")
$^wRight:: ProcessEvent("Right","w")
$^wUp:: ProcessEvent("Up","w")
$^wDown:: ProcessEvent("Down","w")

And it will work perfectly fine as long as you ready your walls up b->C->w
Its expandable

Edit--

That's not what it does, unfortunately, and I can't figure out why. It keeps getting to "build statue" instead, as if it's sending "s" and not "S". I don't have capslock on or anything like that, so I can't figure out why it's doing this.

The reason why it is doing this is because you need to Send +s rather than just a caps S. I hope that answers your question.

Try building a regular forge or smith, sometimes they the possessed don't like the magma versions. Also try building a craft workshop.

I prefer just using demolitions for larger scale channeling.

Hyndis's way is really great, especially if you are making a huge shaft like I almost always do. I love huge holes going down into the ground with a double helix ramp around them. It the trade mark of all my fortresses, and each time the holes seem to get bigger.

You could aways just channel out the area but that takes forever if you don't want your mentally challenged beard lovers getting stuck on a random tile and their buddies channeling out the area around it and it collapsing then you have a hurt dwarf on your hands, no one likes that.

Heres an idea as well, if you are up to the challenge, make it so a waterfall falls straight down your light shaft in the middle, the dwarfs LOVE this.

HAHA

That would be more work than building the dome was. But how would you deconstruct the structure you build for the magma the material would still fall on top of the dome.