Include Exclude Layer Filter

[Anonymous]

I am trying to write a layer filter that will include all of my layers that contain FIGR and exlude all layers containing DEMO

I am familiar with the ~ and ** syntax but have not been able to use them in conjuction to get the result I am looking for.

I would appreciate your help if you are able to give some.

-JT

[rkmcswain]

By definition, if you only want to see FIGR layers, that will exclude everything else, including DEMO layers.

Or you could have one that excludes DEMO layers, that would include FIGR (and all others).

IOW, once you do ONE of those, the other is not necessary.
Maybe I'm missing something?

[Anonymous]

The result I am looking for is to have a list of all layers that contain FIGR but do not contain DEMO

for example I want to have V-FIGR-RETW but not V-FIGR-RETW-DEMO

I have discovered one solution for this.

I am now using a sub filter to accomplish this.

My main filter includes all layers containg FIGR - *FIGR*

And the sub filter excludes the layers containing DEMO - ~*DEMO*

-JT

[scot-65]

Create a command inside the CUI and populate in your favorite area.

Here is the command's Macro:
^C^C-layer;t;0;s;0;f;*;t;*FIGR*,Def*;f;*DEMO;;

And another one:
^C^C-layer;t;0;s;0;f;*;t;*DEMO,Def*;;

Add any additional layers after Def* that will be comma separated.
A semicolon is equal to [Enter].
If you Off/On your layers, also incorporate/substitute in the macro.

???

And Welcome to this Forum!

[3wood · Accepted solution]

You can set up a nested Layer Property Filter.

Create a filter to include FIGR first, then create another filter under this filter (right-click and select from the short-cut menu) to exclude DEMO.

 

[Anonymous]

3wood that is what I ended up using as my solution. It is something that Autodesk could tweak because when I saw New Properties Filter after a right click I thought 'no I want to work with this one not a new one.' My point is that something that said subFilter would be nice and intuitive. However, I am glad that the functionality is there.

[scot-65]

I got a bad taste when layer filters were first introduced - thus avoiding whenever possible.

An engineer once sent us a 50MB file that had about 220k worth of entities and the bloating
was due to thousands upon thousands of layer filters (including Chinese characters).
He was not aware of this.

As part of our file maintenance, where the first occurrence of Qsave, layer filters are purged.

[3wood]

Subfilter is a good name! But we don't have a name of subblock?

[leilani.gnall-gregory]

How do you write a sub properties filter into a lisp routine? 

I've got a lisp to create a layer filter.  

[cadffm]

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@leilani.gnall-gregory  schrieb:

How do you write a sub properties filter into a lisp routine? 

Every Layerfilter is a sub-layerfilter, except the "all" filter.

I've got a lisp to create a layer filter.  

Is this lisp using the api to create layerfilters, or just sends input to the commandline (Command ...)?

If you don't know, share this Lispcode

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API: Share your code first, please

COMMAND: Type in..

-LAYER<enter>

FILTER<enter>

NEW<enter>

Property<enter>

[F2] read what AutoCAD ask for..!

If you send "" or "All", you create a sub-filter to filter "All",

if you send "INCLUDE", you create a sub-filter to filter "INCLUDE" ~ if present

._-layer
_filter
_new
_property

NAME=="*FIGR*"
INCLUDE


._-layer
_filter
_new
_property
INCLUDE
NAME=="~*DEMO*"
EXCLUDE


within the (command function
(command "._-layer" "_filter" "_new" "_property" "" "NAME==\"*FIGR*\"" "INCLUDE" nil)
(command "._-layer" "_filter" "_new" "_property" "INCLUDE" "NAME==\"~*DEMO*\"" "EXCLUDE" nil)

[TomBeauford]

You can also use and & or to create filters like you want without needing a subfilter.

(command "._-layer" "filter" "new" "property" "All" "NAME==\"~DEMO\" and NAME==\"*FIGR*\"" "FIGR No DEMO" "X" nil)

[leahs6ALC9]

Following on from the initial question, I'm trying to exclude multiple text strings from my property filter. I created a sub-filter and added both exclusions in, but the sub-filter seems to only work with a single exclusion. When I put two exclusions in the sub-filter, neither of the strings are excluded. Image attached.

Property filtering is a new skill for me, so I'm hoping it's simply a case of me not doing it right.

[cadffm]

Hi,

>>"When I put two exclusions in the sub-filter, neither of the strings are excluded. "

pure logic

~*PATH HATCH

list all layers, except the layers with 'PATH HATCH' at the end of the name (for example: ENG RD VERGE doesn't match *PATH HATCH)

~*RD VERGE

list all layers, except the layers with 'RD VERGE' at the end of the name (for example: ENG RD PATH HATCH doesn't match *RD VERGE)

Result= All layers listed

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It is not documented, but you can create such an filter this way:

~(*PATH HATCH,*RD VERGE)

or for XRef layers only

~(*|*PATH HATCH,*|*RD VERGE)

[leahs6ALC9]

I thought that was what was going on. Just didn't know how to get around it. Thanks so much for the workaround. It's exactly what I was looking for.