SELECTION SETS AND PROPERTIES PALETTE

[Anonymous]

I have several users who seem to be unable to pass a selection set to the properties palette.

For example, I want to create a selection set of all viewports on a page. I can say:

Select

"filter

(create viewport filter, add to list, apply..all)

Then I can either hit return (enter) one more time and it will pass that selection set to the properties palette, or I can reissue the select command and select the previous selection set, which also passes the selection set to the properties palette, and from there I can lock all viewports by selecting the display locked property for the selection set.

I want the properties palette to look like this:

This is not happening only for viewports, but all selection sets.

Is there a system variable that affects this? I have tried pickfirst, but that doesn't work.

Any help appreciated.

[Kent1Cooper]

After your Select command, try this:

(sssetfirst nil (ssget "_P"))

If that doesn't do it, what happens?  Are there any messages?  Etc.

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

I usually do it (setq a (ssget "P")) to create a named selection set I can use later. (select !a)

No that doesn't work.

However, I did find the solution -

set "pickadd" to 2 instead of pickfirst.