Topic: Any workaround to add ename keys in filter-list of ssget?

[JohnSnow]

Hi,

After using vlax-ldata method to assign keys to enames. Is there any way to add these these keys in filter-list of ssget OR do I have to ssget all the entities and loop? Is there any workaround to get the entities with the same keys alot quicker like the way ssget with filter-list works instead of looping one by one? Thanks

[mhupp]

I think you want to be using xdata for that. then depending on what 1000's value you are storing you could use that in ssget to filter to those entity's

Code - Auto/Visual Lisp: [Select]

1. (setq ss (ssget '((1000 . ""Kenny is great""))))

Tutorial
https://www.afralisp.net/autolisp/tutorials/extended-entity-data-part-1.php
https://www.afralisp.net/autolisp/tutorials/extended-entity-data-part-2.php

[JohnSnow]

I think you want to be using xdata for that. then depending on what 1000's value you are storing you could use that in ssget to filter to those entity's

Code - Auto/Visual Lisp: [Select]

1. (setq ss (ssget '((1000 . ""Kenny is great""))))

Tutorial
https://www.afralisp.net/autolisp/tutorials/extended-entity-data-part-1.php
https://www.afralisp.net/autolisp/tutorials/extended-entity-data-part-2.php

Thank you.
Does Visual lisp provide similar method to ssget to filter keys in drawing dictionary?