Setting current properties from an existing object?
Accepted solution
For greater possibilities than ADDSELECTED, try MakeMore.lsp with its MM command, available here.
It has several advantages over ADDSELECTED -- some examples:
One of the best -- if you select a Polyline, ADDSELECTED will simply call up the PLINE command, whereas MM will offer you the various commands that make Polylines [seven of them] as options to choose from. And it can recognize certain types [Rectangles, Donuts, Revclouds, Polygons], and offer the appropriate command as default.
For Text or Dimensions, MM offers the option to make a continuation of the selected one, or start a new one somewhere else.
For Points, ADDSELECTED just starts a Point command, but MM also offers Divide and Measure as options.
If you select something that has a non-default override on some propert/ies [color, linetype, etc.], it warns you that it's changing the current-entity property/ies to match, and that you should change it/them back. It does not change them back itself, because you might want to draw more than one of whatever you're Making More of, but it contains a MMR command [= MakeMore Reset] that will restore the property settings from beforehand.
And there are others....
You would still want ADDSELECTED in your quiver, because MakeMore was written under Acad2004, before certain entity types existed, so it won't duplicate every possible thing. But if you pick one of those, it at least tells you that it has set the Layer and other properties to match it but isn't able to call the command for it.
Kent Cooper, AIA 
@Anonymous wrote:
How about maintaining those acquired settings (layer, color, line weight, width) for more than just one command?
The MM command in MakeMore.lsp does that.
Kent Cooper, AIA