Select Similar Mode buggy ?

[MetalFingerz]

Hi everybody,

I am having an issue regarding the select similar command because it looks like it's only filtering by layer no matter what bitcode I enter to the selectsimilarmode variable. Maybe I am misunderstanding how the command is intended to work but I've had this issue on different computers in different ACA versions. This tend to prove that I'm doing something wrong so if that's the case, can you guys help me understand what ?

[dbroad · Accepted solution]

Thanks (Merci Beaucoup) for demonstrating the issue.  I believe the issue is limited to ACA versions rather than the base AutoCAD.  This appears to be a bug in the aecselectsimilar command which replaces selectsimiliar when ACA is launched.  To verify that it is not selectsimilar, undefine aecselectsimilar and then redefine selectsimilar.  Then do your tests.  The errors are limited to the aecselectsimilar form I believe.  I didn't even know about selectsimilarmode but it looks quite handy.

[MetalFingerz]

Hi dbroad, thanks for the solution !

One question : do I have to undefine/redefine those commands every time I run ACA ? Otherwise I guess a simple LISP at startup would fix that.

Anyway, merci (we don't use "beaucoup" that much because a simple "thanks" is usually enough ;))

[dbroad]

Nice to know.  I haven't had French since 9th grade. I don't want to tell you how long ago that is.

The easiest way to make the change permanent is to add the lisp commands in acaddoc.lsp.  I would recommend, however, that when you are just using AutoCAD Architecture as AutoCAD, you just load ACA with the AutoCAD profile.  It works fine in ACA as is. The problem with undefining the ACA version of the command is that you would lose all the AEC specific filters.  I haven't tested those but I would imagine that that is where they spent their testing time.  Might be easier to build a wrapper for the AutoCAD variant of the command if that is possible.  I know just typing in .selectsimilar does not access the AutoCAD version at the command line but it might if called from LISP.