This is enough, in my trial:
(sssetfirst nil (ssget "_P"))
I put it into a Tool Palette button, and just picking on it selects/grips/highlights the Previous selection. And likewise for the Last item:
(sssetfirst nil (ssget "_L"))
@Intuos5 wrote:
@Kent1Cooper wrote:
This is enough, in my trial:
(sssetfirst nil (ssget "_P"))
I put it into a Tool Palette button, and just picking on it selects/grips/highlights the Previous selection. And likewise for the Last item:
(sssetfirst nil (ssget "_L"))
Apologies for asking yet another thing, this is all new to me. Okay, so for creating the new command, in which box do I paste the script portion? I presume the macro one for the command? Then I can use this guide to assign the actual alias to the command, which looks doable.
In the procedure in that guide, yes, put the code into the "Macro" slot, and the letters you want to type into the "Name" slot. There are other ways, but that should do it.
@Intuos5 wrote:
... how to add it as an alias. .... Could someone lend me a hand to configure select last and select previous to have "sell" and "selp" as alias? ....
Aliases in the .pgp file are for native AutoCAD commands. For this, you would want to define little custom command names:
(defun C:SELL () (sssetfirst nil (ssget "_L")))
(defun C:SELP () (sssetfirst nil (ssget "_P")))
You could put those lines into your acaddoc.lsp file [make one if you don't have one, even if they are all that's in it, in a place where AutoCAD knows to look] and they'll be loaded and available in every drawing.
Those can be used "plain" at the command prompt to select/highlight/grip the appropriate thing(s) as pre-selection for use with a subsequently-invoked command, but they can also be used transparently, i.e. within a command that's asking for object selection, mixed in among other selection options, by typing them with an apostrophe prefix:
Command: MOVE
Select objects: {picked something other than the last object} 1 found
Select objects: 'SELL
(nil <Selection set: 174>)
1 found, 2 total
Select objects: {continue selecting things...}
....
[though in that kind of usage, a simple L or P will do the same, but you could put them into Tool Palette buttons if you find picking one of those preferable to typing a letter.]
