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The current layer switch automatically to other layer

Anonymous — Thu, 02 May 2019 01:31:26 GMT

Why the current layer switch automatically to other layer when I draw a line?

Re: The current layer switch automatically to other layer

imadHabash — Thu, 02 May 2019 06:29:11 GMT

Hi,

does this happend in a certain drawing or it's happened i every CAD drawing ? you may have some outsource plug-in or lisp that make this weird behavior .

Regards,

Re: The current layer switch automatically to other layer

Alfred.NESWADBA — Thu, 02 May 2019 06:31:32 GMT

Hi,

>> Why the current layer switch automatically to other

>> layer when I draw a line?

How do you start the line command? From toolbar, from an own customized menu, any tools loaded which catch commands?

Can you please try this:

Make sure layer 0 is on, thawed and current
start command _.LINE 0,0 10,10 (including point and underscore)
end the command with <ENTER>

...which layer is now current?

...which layer does the line now have?

- alfred -

Re: The current layer switch automatically to other layer

pendean — Thu, 02 May 2019 13:23:02 GMT

AutoCAD2017 is not new: so this just started? or did you all buy an add-on recently?
Ask anyone else in your office about it?

Re: The current layer switch automatically to other layer

Anonymous — Fri, 03 May 2019 02:43:42 GMT

Dear alfred,

I set a layer for me draw a line, when I draw a line, it automatically change the layer to wall layer.

Re: The current layer switch automatically to other layer

j.palmeL29YX — Fri, 03 May 2019 05:39:23 GMT

And what about "How do you start the line command" ?

Re: The current layer switch automatically to other layer

TheCADnoob — Fri, 03 May 2019 14:04:05 GMT

how are you setting your layer?

Re: The current layer switch automatically to other layer

Anonymous — Tue, 07 May 2019 07:17:19 GMT

Dear TheCADnoob,

I creat the layer as current firstly, and then draw a line in "PL' command. When draw a second line, it switch automatically to other layer.

BR,

Lau chu shunshun.

Re: The current layer switch automatically to other layer

Kent1Cooper — Tue, 07 May 2019 12:13:28 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:

I creat the layer as current firstly, and then draw a line in "PL' command. When draw a second line, it switch automatically to other layer. ....

So you're not drawing a Line, after all. PL is [by default] the command alias for the PLINE command, which would simply start a Polyline [on the current Layer], and a Polyline is a different entity type than a Line.

It sounds like you have a custom definition of a command named PL that is not just the PLINE command called by the default PL command alias. Do you have an acaddoc.lsp file that contains (defun C:PL ... in it? If you're not sure, put (findfile "acaddoc.lsp") in at the command line, and if that returns something other than nil, it will tell you where it is -- open that file and look for a command definition.

If you force it to use AutoCAD's basic command, by typing .PLINE [with the preceding period/decimal], does it do the same thing? If it works normally without changing the Layer, then you do have a custom-defined PL command that is changing the Layer.