The current layer switch automatically to other layer

[Anonymous]

Why the current layer switch automatically to other layer when I draw a line?

[imadHabash]

Hi,

does this happend in a certain drawing or it's happened i every CAD drawing ? you may have some outsource plug-in or lisp that make this weird behavior . 

Regards,

[Alfred.NESWADBA]

Hi,

>> Why the current layer switch automatically to other

>> layer when I draw a line?

How do you start the line command? From toolbar, from an own customized menu, any tools loaded which catch commands?

Can you please try this:

• Make sure layer 0 is on, thawed and current
• start command _.LINE 0,0 10,10 (including point and underscore)
• end the command with <ENTER>

...which layer is now current?

...which layer does the line now have?

- alfred -

[pendean]

AutoCAD2017 is not new: so this just started? or did you all buy an add-on recently?
Ask anyone else in your office about it?

[Anonymous]

Dear alfred,

I set  a layer for me draw a line, when I draw a line, it automatically change the layer to wall layer.

[j.palmeL29YX]

And what about "How do you start the line command" ?

[TheCADnoob]

how are you setting your layer?

[Anonymous]

Dear  TheCADnoob,

I creat the layer as current firstly, and then draw a line  in "PL' command. When draw a second line, it switch automatically to other layer.

BR, 

Lau chu shunshun.

[Kent1Cooper]

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@Anonymous wrote:

I creat the layer as current firstly, and then draw a line  in "PL' command. When draw a second line, it switch automatically to other layer. ....

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So you're not  drawing a Line, after all.  PL is [by default] the command alias for the PLINE command, which would simply start a Polyline [on the current Layer], and a Polyline is a different entity type than a Line.

It sounds like you have a custom definition of a command named PL that is not  just the PLINE command called by the default PL command alias.  Do you have an acaddoc.lsp file that contains  (defun C:PL ...  in it?  If you're not sure, put  (findfile "acaddoc.lsp")  in at the command line, and if that returns something other than nil, it will tell you where it is -- open that file and look for a command definition.

If you force it to use AutoCAD's basic command, by typing .PLINE [with  the preceding period/decimal], does it do the same thing?  If it works normally without changing the Layer, then you do  have a custom-defined PL command that is changing the Layer.