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Prior to AutoCAD 2015, selected objects appear as dashed lines when selected. That props thing that pops up is a childs play thing compared to a real info tool, even the properties palette. Issue: You want to change how objects in AutoCAD are highlighted when selected or when the mouse cursor rolls over them. Note that I also have tools for getting info on an entity, and changing its layer props in same dialog. Please explain if I missed something, I keep thinking there must be something it offers if people are avoiding just making key-ins and using them instead. So its like you cannot salvage a lousy command issuing method by somehow improving it, you go around it and save your poor mouse hand some punishment. It sounds like the only reason you use the quad is to run a command, and that hover thing is a nasty method for daily use IMO. (DEFUN C:CRR () (PRINC "\nCopy rotate")(NLOAD "COPYROT8.lsp")(c:COPYROT8)(princ)) (DEFUN C:DA () (PRINC "\nEdit Attributes")(COMMAND "DDATTE") (PRINC)) You must know some basic lisp to get that set up, here is an example as the pgp file only works on commands, not lisp functions or little macros. SEL by Charles Alan Butler, on another page linked to from there, selects the layers just by picking objects on those layers. Both work in Bricscad: LOS by Alan J Thompson, on the page David linked to, uses a dialog box to select the layers. You type your commands with one or two letters and hit space bar. Luis: The Swamp has at least two excellent custom commands that filter a selection set for one or more layers.
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Once you know your tools though, acad/bcad are key-in programs. A selection set is a temporary collection of drawing objects that can be treated as a single entity when performing operations such as moving, copying. I could make use of it too for some things as I just don't do certain things so am also a beginner for them.
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Having done acad for years and watched its interface change through time, I am seeing the quad as a nice tool for beginners that just don't know what commands are available. ComponentsPanelClose - Closes the Components. I read what it does in the help, and its basically an info/context menu tool, with basically all the things to slow down a production person. BmCreateComponent - Creates a component from a selection set or drawing and add the component to the library. The trouble is, BricsCAD imports my designs as meshes, and I have. The file extension needs to be exported in a format the laser cutter will recognize, and I’m using BricsCAD as a filter to turn my designs (which I use Sketchup 2017), from.
#Selection set bricscad series
I've been avoiding the quad, as I don't like things that pop up dialogs and block what I am looking at. I’m currently designing a series of templates to be cut using a laser cutter.