Beginner Help: Simple XRef Macro

[Anonymous]

Hi guys,

I'm sure this has been answered elsewhere so apologies! Just trying to create a simple custom command macro to purge all, audit and correct errors, turn all layers on/thaw/unlock, set all objects to by layer and set all layers' colour to 252 and run the overkill command on all. Any help would be much appreciated, I'm pretty new to CAD generally and particularly macros etc.

Cheers!

[Alfred.NESWADBA]

Hi,

>> Just trying to create a simple custom command macro to

Where are you at the moment?

You can create a SCR-file (script file) and type in the commands 1:1 as they would have been typed into the command line.

Only additional info: a lot of commands can be started with a leading dash ( -LAYER ) so the dialog will not startup, the command asks then all options in the command-line.

For now: how far did you come with your script or what is the next step you try to go but need support?

- alfred -

[Anonymous]

Thanks for the reply, what I've got is this:

^C^C-PURGE;A;*;N;AUDIT;YES;SETBYLAYER;ALL;S; ;Y;Y;OVERKILL;ALL; ;

May well be completely wrong, it seems to run the commands as I'd want, but brings the dialogue boxes for SETBYLAYER & OVERKILL, any way around that?

Also as far as changing all layers colour to 252 and unlocking/thawing/turning on, preferable before the SETBYLAYER kicks in, I have no clue.

Cheers

[Alfred.NESWADBA]

Hi,

>> but brings the dialogue boxes for SETBYLAYER

It does not bring up a dialog for command SETBYLAYER for me, how does that dialog look like (screenshot)?

>> but brings the dialogue boxes for [...] OVERKILL

As written before, start command with a leading dash to avoid dialog, so in this case use

-OVERKILL

- alfred -

[Anonymous]

Apologies, I'd been changing a few things before replying to you.

Ok so this is what I have:

^C^CEXPLODE;ALL; ;-PURGE;A;*;N;AUDIT;YES;SETBYLAYER;ALL;S; ;Y;Y; ;-OVERKILL;ALL; ;

This is what brings up the setbylayer dialogue box and prompts me to press "OK", the dash preceeding OVERKILL has helped, thanks!

I've attached the dialogue box I'm talking about.

[Alfred.NESWADBA]

Hi,

ahh ok, it's not the command itself, it's the settings-dialog for the command.

So the option is not to start option "SETTINGS" within the command. To avoid that you can first set the sysvar SETBYLAYERMODE to the value you need, then start the command .. and so the settings are predefined.

Look to the >>>help<<< to see the details for the sysvar.

HTH, - alfred -

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