topic Re: Text field showing layer description in AutoCAD Forum

Text field showing layer description

joseZ9KZ7 — Wed, 29 May 2019 22:29:10 GMT

Hello all,

I'm using Autocad 2020 and I would like to insert a Text field that shows the layer description.

I know that I can show the layer name but I want to show the layer description.

Any ideas?

Thank you very much.

Re: Text field showing layer description

Ed__Jobe — Wed, 29 May 2019 23:19:32 GMT

I don't think a field is going to be able to do that, but you could place text in the dwg. Here is a lisp that inserts text for all the layers. You could modify it to suit your needs.

Re: Text field showing layer description

vladimir_michl — Thu, 30 May 2019 04:37:25 GMT

You can display Layer Description in a Text Field but how do you select the layer? Do you want the current layer? Or a selected object's layer? Or a fixed layer?

If you want to display a possibly changing description of a fixed layer, you can just replace the property in the layer (named objects) field code - e.g.:

%<\AcObjProp Object(%<\_ObjId 2097988848992>%).Description>%

Vladimir Michl, www.cadstudio.cz - www.cadforum.cz

Re: Text field showing layer description

joseZ9KZ7 — Thu, 30 May 2019 08:00:45 GMT

It would be the layer description of a selected object.

Re: Text field showing layer description

Anonymous — Sun, 24 May 2020 22:24:05 GMT

did you get any success with it? I think i'm trying to do the same thing, i Want to display the layer description but in the Field options i can only find the layer name option. Is it possible in any way?

Re: Text field showing layer description

vladimir_michl — Mon, 25 May 2020 05:41:24 GMT

The layer description is "too far" - you will need to get the name of the layer from the selected object, get the Object ID of that layer and then get its Description property. I doubt this can be done just with fields. But it is quite simple in LISP, and maybe you can also add some kind of reactivity to it.

Vladimir Michl, www.cadstudio.cz - www.cadforum.cz

Re: Text field showing layer description

gros33 — Mon, 08 May 2023 01:26:42 GMT

@Anonymous

You can copy the NamedObject field expression (without the %), paste it and change 'Name' to whatever property you'd like 🙂

For example:

<\AcObjProp Object(%<\_ObjId 3111172414224>%).Color>

<\AcObjProp Object(%<\_ObjId 3111172414224>%).Description>

just add % at the start and end

you're welcomed