Dont have a clue yet how to create a lisp to do what I want to do, but Im hoping to understand some of the basics of selections.In order to grab similar objects from a drawing such as those on a certain layer,colour,linetype etc. Ive seen some lisps that do this by adding objects to selection sets.But can you just do this without creating a selection set,just have autocad search its database and then select the items.Like for instance the QSELECT command will do this,no need to create your selection sets or groups.Problem with the QSELECT, is that its slow to open and run through all the parameters you need.Id like to be able to run something similar to it at the command line.Could then run a number of different lisps or macros for each type of selection.