https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-forum/layer-check-question/m-p/7904133#M185111 <P><FONT color="#ff0000">N</FONT>ested-entity selection can tell you that:</P> <P>(cdr (assoc 8 (entget (car (<FONT color="#ff0000">n</FONT>entsel "\nSelect object for its Layer name: ")))))</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>[It will also report on a <EM>non</EM>-nested object.]</P> Tue, 03 Apr 2018 13:18:39 GMT Kent1Cooper 2018-04-03T13:18:39Z https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-forum/layer-check-question/m-p/7904101#M185110 <P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="layer check.JPG" style="width: 275px;"><img src="https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/483715i8ACC8E4FA65AF3C6/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;px=999" role="button" title="layer check.JPG" alt="layer check.JPG" /></span>I want to find which layer a line is on. The line is in the xref of a xref file named "bp". See check result in the picture, I want to find which layer it is on, it should be something&nbsp;like <STRONG>bp | xref | parking_001.</STRONG></P><P>what settings should I change?</P> Tue, 03 Apr 2018 13:11:01 GMT https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-forum/layer-check-question/m-p/7904101#M185110 Anonymous 2018-04-03T13:11:01Z https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-forum/layer-check-question/m-p/7904133#M185111 <P><FONT color="#ff0000">N</FONT>ested-entity selection can tell you that:</P> <P>(cdr (assoc 8 (entget (car (<FONT color="#ff0000">n</FONT>entsel "\nSelect object for its Layer name: ")))))</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>[It will also report on a <EM>non</EM>-nested object.]</P> Tue, 03 Apr 2018 13:18:39 GMT https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-forum/layer-check-question/m-p/7904133#M185111 Kent1Cooper 2018-04-03T13:18:39Z https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-forum/layer-check-question/m-p/7904328#M185112 <P>Use the XLIST command.</P> Tue, 03 Apr 2018 14:05:06 GMT https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-forum/layer-check-question/m-p/7904328#M185112 GrantsPirate 2018-04-03T14:05:06Z