DOING ENTITY COUNT

[Anonymous]

Good morning all.

We have a lisp, written a long time ago, which does a total area (SQ-UNITS) of the selected entities.

I've found that at a certain point, the property window will no longer do a count of the selected entities. 

how could I write a lisp that would count all entities, which would not run out?

It appears that the properties window will only count 25,000. I did a manual work around, and found that I had 32,000 entities in this particular drawing. This is quite common for the work we do here.

TYIA

[doglips · Accepted solution]

Try: (Setq AllEntities (ssget "X"))

       (setq EntityCount (sslength AllEntities))

[Kent1Cooper · Accepted solution]

Does it need to be via the Properties box?  If you just want to know how many there are, object selection within any editing command -- List, Move, Copy, Erase, etc. -- reports on the quantity, and doesn't seem to be limited in the way you describe.  [Or if it is, it's a much higher limit -- I just tried without close to 60,000 items.]

In AutoLisp terms, (sslength (ssget)) will do it.

[Anonymous]

No.

No properties box is required. A basic message box would suffice. 

Thank you. 

[doglips · Accepted solution]

(Setq AllEntities (ssget "X"))

       (setq EntityCount (sslength AllEntities))

       (alert (strcat "There Are " (rtos EntityCount) " Entities"))

[Anonymous]

This is perfect.

It gave the answer in the F2 window, and that suffices.

In this case, the total drawing was over 67000 items, and it was without having to select anything. So.

Thank you.....

[hmsilva · Accepted solution]

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@Anonymous wrote:

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 the properties window will only count 25,000. I did a manual work around, and found that I had 32,000 entities in this particular drawing...

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PROPOBJLIMIT (System Variable) if set to zero, turns off the limitation...

Hope this helps,
Henrique

[Anonymous]

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@hmsilva wrote:

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@Anonymous wrote:

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 the properties window will only count 25,000. I did a manual work around, and found that I had 32,000 entities in this particular drawing...

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PROPOBJLIMIT (System Variable) if set to zero, turns off the limitation...

Hope this helps,
Henrique

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oh wow.....

better still.

Yes, it does help..... a lot!!!!!

[hmsilva]

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@Anonymous wrote:

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@hmsilva wrote:

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@Anonymous wrote:

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 the properties window will only count 25,000. I did a manual work around, and found that I had 32,000 entities in this particular drawing...

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PROPOBJLIMIT (System Variable) if set to zero, turns off the limitation...

Hope this helps,
Henrique

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oh wow.....

better still.

Yes, it does help..... a lot!!!!!

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You're welcome, stevedeb!
Glad I could help

Henrique