Topic: Entities and handles

[hendie]

am I right in thinking that you can't store an entity name as Xdata but have to store the handle instead ?
and also, that entity names remain constant while handles for an entity *can* change ?

[David Bethel]

Hendie,

enames are dynamic, handles are static. ( Unless you go back to R12 where handles could be destroyed. )

I don't think  there is a way to store enames in XDATA.  Handles are simple strings.  -David

[hendie]

thanks David, for some reason I thought handles could change ~ due to an audit or something perhaps

[Keith™]

handles CAN change if the entire drawing is wblocked to itself

[hendie]

but not throughout the normal course of events in the dwg ?

[Keith™]

nope they are constant