Automated Selection Mode String for All Locked Entities using SSGET
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@Anonymous wrote:
I'm having some difficulties getting exactly what I want out of SSGET. Given a drawing, I want to make a selection set of all entities not on a locked layer or frozen without user input. Now, I can select all non-frozen entities with:
(ssget "x")and I can ask the user to select unlocked entities with:
(ssget ":L")but I can't do both. I could just get all entities with the "x" argument and filter out the locked ones with a few extra lines of code, but it seems like there should already be some selection mode string that does exactly that. Some strings can be combined. For example, "_+.:E:S" is a valid selection method. You would think that there would be a valid string like "x:L".
Hi Shaun,
Unfortunately no...
If you have express,
(if (not ai_ssget) (load "ai_utils")) (if (setq ss (ssget "_X"))(setq ss (ai_ssget ss)))
do a search and you'll find some functions to reject objects with locked layers.
And to reject objects with frozen layers is not the mode "_X" is the mode "_A", "_X" will select all objects in database...
Hope this helps,
Henrique
@Anonymous wrote:
Very interesting, hmsilva. I did not even know these functions existed. After reading through the source code of ai_utils, ai_ssget is definitely exactly what I need. Still, it would be nice if SSGET just accepted ":L" as a modifier in a string by default.
Yes, it would be nice...
Henrique