.NET

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I am using ACADE 2008 and VB.NET. I have a multitude of drawings that I am doing the same three and four operations on and would like to write VB.NET program to do it. I can get my selections set just fine, but my first problem is figuring out how to change all drawing entities color and linetype to "ByLayer". So far I have not gotten past changing just the color value. I have tried multiple variations on the following line without success:

myAcadEnt.Color = Colors.Color.FromDictionaryName("ByLayer")

Can anybody get me pointed in the right direction? I am grateful for any help.

Scott

[#2]

myAcadEnt.ColorIndex = 256

[#3]

Is there a similar value for the LinetypeId as for layers to reset to BYLAYER?

ent.ColorIndex = 256; /BYLAYER

// ent.LinetypeId = ???; //BYLAYER

rather than doing this:

ent.Linetype = "BYLAYER";

Dale

[#4]

Hello Dale,

"Database.ByLayerLineType" property will give you the ObjectId of the "ByLayer" line type.

[#5]

That's correct. But what I want to know is what is the LinetypeID eqivalent of "BYLAYER"?. Thanks for hte reply, Dale

[#6]

Something like this -

ent.linetype = db.ByLayerLinetype

[#7]

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dbartlett wrote:

That's correct. But what I want to know is what is the LinetypeID eqivalent of "BYLAYER"?. Thanks for hte reply, Dale

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Balaji told you - it is returned by the property he mentioned, and it must be assigned to the entity's LinetypeId property (as opposed to the Linetype property)