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Difference of PO command and selecting Multiple Points in expanded Draw panel

Anonymous — Sat, 03 Jul 2021 16:02:36 GMT

When I type 'PO' and press enter, I can only select one point and then AutoCAD exits the command without any Esc or Enter key pressed by me

In contrast when I select the Multiple Points in the expanded Draw panel, I can select as many points I want and then I can exit the command by pressing Esc key

Is there a system variable that causes this difference between PO and Multiple Points? How can I make PO command work like the Multiple Points?

Re: Difference of PO command and selecting Multiple Points in expanded Draw panel

Kent1Cooper — Sat, 03 Jul 2021 20:38:34 GMT

You can do what that menu item probably does behind the scenes: Use the MULTIPLE "prefix" command:

Command: MULTIPLE

Enter command name to repeat: POINT

Current point modes: PDMODE=0 PDSIZE=0'-0"
Specify a point: .... {as many as you want} ....

You could simplify that by adding MU as an alias for MULTIPLE with ALIASEDIT.

You can put that into a macro command in a Tool Palette button:

^C^C_.multiple _.point

or, alternatively, with the *^C^C prefix that makes what follows repeat automatically:

*^C^C_.point

Or, you could even UNDEFINE the native POINT command, and make your own new definition of the command, incorporating the MULTIPLE command before calling up POINT. That could have one advantage over all the above approaches: it could be built to allow Enter or the space bar to end it, in addition to ESCape [all the above approaches require ESCape to end them]. It would also have the advantage that you could just type in POINT or even just the alias PO at the command line [not limited to picking on a menu item or typing in two command names], and it would use your definition of the command. If that is of interest, write back.

Re: Difference of PO command and selecting Multiple Points in expanded Draw panel

imadHabash — Sun, 04 Jul 2021 06:45:27 GMT

Hi,

>> When I type 'PO' and press enter, I can only select one point and then AutoCAD exits the command without any Esc

This is because it's designed to act like that .

>> when I select the Multiple Points in the expanded Draw panel, I can select as many points I want

This is also because it's designed to act like that . Here you select a different command than the first one .

>> Is there a system variable that causes this difference between PO and Multiple Points?

No .