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Setting current properties from an existing object?

Anonymous — Thu, 26 Oct 2017 11:25:17 GMT

Anyone know how to create a new object in AutoCAD that's based on the properties of a selected object?

For example, if you select a line then when drawing a new line it will have the properties of the selected line (layer, style, colour etc.)

(not Match Properties)

Re: Setting current properties from an existing object?

pendean — Thu, 26 Oct 2017 12:14:30 GMT

Wouldn't that be ADDSELECTED command in AutoCAD? Look it up in HELP.

Re: Setting current properties from an existing object?

TheCADnoob — Thu, 26 Oct 2017 12:23:28 GMT

...edit: looks like i learned somethign new today 🙂

Re: Setting current properties from an existing object?

Anonymous — Thu, 26 Oct 2017 13:18:44 GMT

ADDSELECTED is just the ticket! Thanks Dean.

Re: Setting current properties from an existing object?

Kent1Cooper — Thu, 26 Oct 2017 13:25:01 GMT

For greater possibilities than ADDSELECTED, try MakeMore.lsp with its MM command, available here.

It has several advantages over ADDSELECTED -- some examples:

One of the best -- if you select a Polyline, ADDSELECTED will simply call up the PLINE command, whereas MM will offer you the various commands that make Polylines [seven of them] as options to choose from. And it can recognize certain types [Rectangles, Donuts, Revclouds, Polygons], and offer the appropriate command as default.

For Text or Dimensions, MM offers the option to make a continuation of the selected one, or start a new one somewhere else.

For Points, ADDSELECTED just starts a Point command, but MM also offers Divide and Measure as options.

If you select something that has a non-default override on some propert/ies [color, linetype, etc.], it warns you that it's changing the current-entity property/ies to match, and that you should change it/them back. It does not change them back itself, because you might want to draw more than one of whatever you're Making More of, but it contains a MMR command [= MakeMore Reset] that will restore the property settings from beforehand.

And there are others....

You would still want ADDSELECTED in your quiver, because MakeMore was written under Acad2004, before certain entity types existed, so it won't duplicate every possible thing. But if you pick one of those, it at least tells you that it has set the Layer and other properties to match it but isn't able to call the command for it.

Re: Setting current properties from an existing object?

Anonymous — Thu, 26 Oct 2017 15:13:29 GMT

Excellent routine. I've loaded MakeMore.lsp too - thanks Kent.

Re: Setting current properties from an existing object?

Anonymous — Wed, 12 Sep 2018 17:01:56 GMT

How about maintaining those acquired settings (layer, color, line weight, width) for more than just one command?

Re: Setting current properties from an existing object?

Kent1Cooper — Wed, 12 Sep 2018 18:50:28 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:

How about maintaining those acquired settings (layer, color, line weight, width) for more than just one command?

The MM command in MakeMore.lsp does that.