Topic: LWPolyline - Defpoints Layer, can't select!

[mjfarrell]

yes I can

[David Hall]

so your saying if you thaw/on layer 0 you can select them?

[ronjonp]

MJF, what about when 0 is thawed and on, you still cant select them

I could select them as soon as I thawed layer 0...

[David Hall]

i think the dwg is getting very corrupt

[mjfarrell]

Yes, that's what I said. However, keep in mind that 'knowing' there was a 'problem' with the data I ran i through a MAP query to straighten it's arcs out.

I use MAP quite a bit this way to filter data that I receive from others.

See the problem is/was that layer 0 and defpoints are connected in some evil way to acad.  I know this, so I modified those objects on that layer to slide onto another layer during the query process, the INSTANT I had them onscreen, they were selectable, and on a new layer.

See the following: http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/ps/item?siteID=123112&id=2893884&linkID=9240617

Excerpt from above: "Note: The DEFPOINTS layer was created to hold non-plotting information about dimensions. This layer is not designed to be used to hold drawing objects other than dimension points. "

[David Hall]

yea, but we all do it anyway

[David Hall]

I put them on a different layer as well and they were selectable.

[mjfarrell]

yea, but we all do it anyway

As my Master often says to me:

"Just because you can does not mean you should"

And just as often:

"The problem is the solution"