topic Re: Iterate through Entities in .NET Forum

Iterate through Entities

Anonymous — Sat, 17 Dec 2016 13:11:49 GMT

Hello,

I am new to AutoCAD Customization and learning few things.

But I would like to know like we have model space and paper space, is it possible to iterate through entities of these.

Few Drawings may not be repeated in paper space.

It can have Blocks, Tables, Texts, Polylines. I need to iterate entities of these sheets separately.

Regards,

Kumuda

Re: Iterate through Entities

BKSpurgeon — Tue, 20 Dec 2016 06:37:56 GMT

Mr Spider has already answered your question here - I needn't repeat what he has said:

http://spiderinnet1.typepad.com/blog/2012/06/autocad-net-iterate-through-model-space.html

but what is your purpose in iterating through it all? it can be a very slow process if you have many objects in your drawing. maybe it is better if you used a selection filter. just get the objects you need and do what you need to do.

regards

Ben

Re: Iterate through Entities

_gile — Tue, 20 Dec 2016 07:19:04 GMT

@BKSpurgeon,

Iterating through entities is not slower than using selectAll with a SelectionFilter.

SelectAll does iterate through entities (how could it be otherwise).

See my reply in this topic.

Re: Iterate through Entities

BKSpurgeon — Tue, 20 Dec 2016 11:28:19 GMT

Thank you Mr Gilles - that post is very good - i had completely forgotten about it!

rgds