freeze objects
@michaelZCXYL wrote:
.... I am wondering if it is possible to work on multiple drawing at one time? ....
Aside from the issue that an AutoLisp routine can't start in one drawing and continue in another, and likewise can't operate in more than one drawing at the same time -- if it could, how would what you're asking work? If it involves selecting items to hide, or those you want to un-hide from hidden ones temporarily revealed, how can you do that in more than one drawing at a time? What do you picture as the steps a User would take?
You can have a Script call it, and using something like ScriptPro to run that in multiple drawings successively, but don't you still need to do something in each of them separately?
@michaelZCXYL wrote:
.... I do not need to do something in each of them separately, do the same thing for all the drawings. ....
That's what I don't understand. What is "the same thing"? Do you mean it would hide or reveal the same object(s) in all drawings? Do they all have the same object(s) in them? What defines what's the same object?
It can't use entity names, because those change from one drawing session to another.
It might only under very restricted lucky circumstances be able to use handles, requiring that all drawings involved were made using SAVE or SAVEAS from the same source drawing, so the handles will be the same, and that all the desired same objects in all drawings were already present at the time those drawings were all created. That's the only chance you would have of the same objects having the same handles that a routine could use to find them.
Again, what would a User do to achieve what you're after, if a command can be defined? Call the command while in one of the drawings in question, and then.... ? Would all the other drawings involved need to be open at the time? [AutoLisp won't be able to move from one to another.] Would they all be in the same folder location? [I believe something like ScriptPro could run a Script in all of them, which could call the AutoLisp routine in each if it doesn't require User input, but then it wouldn't be called as a command in one of the drawings.] Etc.
@pendean wrote:
Might be time to just let them run with open scissors aka "feeling lucky" 😐
But run with what scissors? That's what I'm trying to elicit.
