topic Re: Search command in AutoCAD Forum

Search command

stavjan19989 — Wed, 29 May 2024 10:41:51 GMT

Hey,
I am looking for a command that by clicking on one block it will freeze the entire program except for all the times this block appears, to see it prominently in relation to the program to see its distribution and the way it is divided
I hope I explained well

and Google translated well hahaha

pic 1 - the plan

pic 2 - The result, the goal

Re: Search command

AVCPlugins — Wed, 29 May 2024 11:59:13 GMT

Use _selectsimilar command. And may by add _isolate too

Re: Search command

baksconstructor — Wed, 29 May 2024 11:59:16 GMT

SELECTSIMILAR

ISOLATE

Re: Search command

Kent1Cooper — Wed, 29 May 2024 12:21:18 GMT

[The command name is ISOLATEOBJECTS.] But that will show the SELECTSIMILAR result only, and everything else will be invisible. That's not what they want -- the context, but faded, is part of the idea.

@stavjan19989 , are these always on a common Layer, and is there nothing else on that Layer that you want featured? It wouldn't be hard to write a routine that would use the Locked-layer Fading option, and temporarily lock all Layers except that of a selected object. But it would be by entire Layers. Would that do what you want?

Re: Search command

AVCPlugins — Wed, 29 May 2024 13:33:55 GMT

Nobody seemed to demand "faded". It is enough to select all the blocks of the same name and they will be perfectly visible against the background of the rest of the drawing due to the usual illumination of the selected objects.