https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/net-forum/change-the-properties-before-activating-a-command/m-p/12007877#M8641 <P>Hi,</P> <P>The <A href="https://help.autodesk.com/view/OARX/2023/ENU/?guid=OARX-ManagedRefGuide-Autodesk_AutoCAD_DatabaseServices_Database" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Database</A> class provides properties for most of the database system variables such as <A href="https://help.autodesk.com/view/OARX/2023/ENU/?guid=OARX-ManagedRefGuide-Autodesk_AutoCAD_DatabaseServices_Database_Cecolor" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Cecolor</A> and <A href="https://help.autodesk.com/view/OARX/2023/ENU/?guid=OARX-ManagedRefGuide-Autodesk_AutoCAD_DatabaseServices_Database_Clayer" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Clayer</A>.</P> Fri, 02 Jun 2023 18:42:18 GMT _gile 2023-06-02T18:42:18Z https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/net-forum/change-the-properties-before-activating-a-command/m-p/12007831#M8640 <P>Is it possible to change the properties before activating a command so that all entities made by that command have those properties? Specifically changing the Color and layer properties to the one below. I basically want a new command in the ribbon for each draw command, annotation command so that the user can just click a button and the properties are chosen and then they are put back afterwards. It is like the layer director by Lee Mac but I can't find a vb.net version of it. An alternate solution would be to select the entities that were created after the command is run. Is there a way to do that?</P><P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="2023-06-02 14_07_13-.png" style="width: 442px;"><img src="https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/1223068i2A14D0177064C225/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;px=999" role="button" title="2023-06-02 14_07_13-.png" alt="2023-06-02 14_07_13-.png" /></span></P> Fri, 02 Jun 2023 18:14:54 GMT https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/net-forum/change-the-properties-before-activating-a-command/m-p/12007831#M8640 SiEngineer 2023-06-02T18:14:54Z https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/net-forum/change-the-properties-before-activating-a-command/m-p/12007877#M8641 <P>Hi,</P> <P>The <A href="https://help.autodesk.com/view/OARX/2023/ENU/?guid=OARX-ManagedRefGuide-Autodesk_AutoCAD_DatabaseServices_Database" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Database</A> class provides properties for most of the database system variables such as <A href="https://help.autodesk.com/view/OARX/2023/ENU/?guid=OARX-ManagedRefGuide-Autodesk_AutoCAD_DatabaseServices_Database_Cecolor" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Cecolor</A> and <A href="https://help.autodesk.com/view/OARX/2023/ENU/?guid=OARX-ManagedRefGuide-Autodesk_AutoCAD_DatabaseServices_Database_Clayer" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Clayer</A>.</P> Fri, 02 Jun 2023 18:42:18 GMT https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/net-forum/change-the-properties-before-activating-a-command/m-p/12007877#M8641 _gile 2023-06-02T18:42:18Z