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Include Exclude Layer Filter

Anonymous — Thu, 24 Sep 2015 14:23:47 GMT

I am trying to write a layer filter that will include all of my layers that contain FIGR and exlude all layers containing DEMO

I am familiar with the ~ and ** syntax but have not been able to use them in conjuction to get the result I am looking for.

I would appreciate your help if you are able to give some.

-JT

Re: Include Exclude Layer Filter

rkmcswain — Thu, 24 Sep 2015 14:35:35 GMT

By definition, if you only want to see FIGR layers, that will exclude everything else, including DEMO layers.

Or you could have one that excludes DEMO layers, that would include FIGR (and all others).

IOW, once you do ONE of those, the other is not necessary.
Maybe I'm missing something?

Re: Include Exclude Layer Filter

Anonymous — Thu, 24 Sep 2015 14:44:03 GMT

The result I am looking for is to have a list of all layers that contain FIGR but do not contain DEMO

for example I want to have V-FIGR-RETW but not V-FIGR-RETW-DEMO

I have discovered one solution for this.

I am now using a sub filter to accomplish this.

My main filter includes all layers containg FIGR - *FIGR*

And the sub filter excludes the layers containing DEMO - ~*DEMO*

-JT

Re: Include Exclude Layer Filter

scot-65 — Thu, 24 Sep 2015 22:30:59 GMT

Create a command inside the CUI and populate in your favorite area.

Here is the command's Macro:
^C^C-layer;t;0;s;0;f;*;t;*FIGR*,Def*;f;*DEMO;;

And another one:
^C^C-layer;t;0;s;0;f;*;t;*DEMO,Def*;;

Add any additional layers after Def* that will be comma separated.
A semicolon is equal to [Enter].
If you Off/On your layers, also incorporate/substitute in the macro.

???

And Welcome to this Forum!

Re: Include Exclude Layer Filter

3wood — Fri, 25 Sep 2015 12:46:58 GMT

You can set up a nested Layer Property Filter.

Create a filter to include FIGR first, then create another filter under this filter (right-click and select from the short-cut menu) to exclude DEMO.

Re: Include Exclude Layer Filter

Anonymous — Fri, 25 Sep 2015 14:08:37 GMT

3wood that is what I ended up using as my solution. It is something that Autodesk could tweak because when I saw New Properties Filter after a right click I thought 'no I want to work with this one not a new one.' My point is that something that said subFilter would be nice and intuitive. However, I am glad that the functionality is there.

Re: Include Exclude Layer Filter

scot-65 — Fri, 25 Sep 2015 22:00:52 GMT

I got a bad taste when layer filters were first introduced - thus avoiding whenever possible.

An engineer once sent us a 50MB file that had about 220k worth of entities and the bloating
was due to thousands upon thousands of layer filters (including Chinese characters).
He was not aware of this.

As part of our file maintenance, where the first occurrence of Qsave, layer filters are purged.

Re: Include Exclude Layer Filter

3wood — Mon, 05 Oct 2015 13:29:58 GMT

Subfilter is a good name! But we don't have a name of subblock?

Re: Include Exclude Layer Filter

leilani.gnall-gregory — Thu, 03 Mar 2022 05:49:47 GMT

How do you write a sub properties filter into a lisp routine?

I've got a lisp to create a layer filter.

Re: Include Exclude Layer Filter

cadffm — Thu, 03 Mar 2022 10:16:12 GMT

@leilani.gnall-gregory schrieb:

How do you write a sub properties filter into a lisp routine?

Every Layerfilter is a sub-layerfilter, except the "all" filter.

I've got a lisp to create a layer filter.

Is this lisp using the api to create layerfilters, or just sends input to the commandline (Command ...)?

If you don't know, share this Lispcode

API: Share your code first, please

COMMAND: Type in..

-LAYER<enter>

FILTER<enter>

NEW<enter>

Property<enter>

[F2] read what AutoCAD ask for..!

If you send "" or "All", you create a sub-filter to filter "All",

if you send "INCLUDE", you create a sub-filter to filter "INCLUDE" ~ if present

._-layer _filter _new _property NAME=="*FIGR*" INCLUDE ._-layer _filter _new _property INCLUDE NAME=="~*DEMO*" EXCLUDE within the (command function (command "._-layer" "_filter" "_new" "_property" "" "NAME==\"*FIGR*\"" "INCLUDE" nil) (command "._-layer" "_filter" "_new" "_property" "INCLUDE" "NAME==\"~*DEMO*\"" "EXCLUDE" nil)

Re: Include Exclude Layer Filter

TomBeauford — Thu, 03 Mar 2022 16:40:39 GMT

You can also use and & or to create filters like you want without needing a subfilter.

(command "._-layer" "filter" "new" "property" "All" "NAME==\"~DEMO\" and NAME==\"*FIGR*\"" "FIGR No DEMO" "X" nil)

Re: Include Exclude Layer Filter

leahs6ALC9 — Thu, 10 Nov 2022 02:50:40 GMT

Following on from the initial question, I'm trying to exclude multiple text strings from my property filter. I created a sub-filter and added both exclusions in, but the sub-filter seems to only work with a single exclusion. When I put two exclusions in the sub-filter, neither of the strings are excluded. Image attached.

Property filtering is a new skill for me, so I'm hoping it's simply a case of me not doing it right.

Re: Include Exclude Layer Filter

cadffm — Thu, 10 Nov 2022 07:14:02 GMT

Hi,

>>"When I put two exclusions in the sub-filter, neither of the strings are excluded. "

pure logic

~*PATH HATCH

list all layers, except the layers with 'PATH HATCH' at the end of the name (for example: ENG RD VERGE doesn't match *PATH HATCH)

~*RD VERGE

list all layers, except the layers with 'RD VERGE' at the end of the name (for example: ENG RD PATH HATCH doesn't match *RD VERGE)

Result= All layers listed

It is not documented, but you can create such an filter this way:

~(*PATH HATCH,*RD VERGE)

or for XRef layers only

~(*|*PATH HATCH,*|*RD VERGE)

Re: Include Exclude Layer Filter

leahs6ALC9 — Thu, 10 Nov 2022 23:02:49 GMT

I thought that was what was going on. Just didn't know how to get around it. Thanks so much for the workaround. It's exactly what I was looking for.