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Hello,

 

I'm very new to LISP and wanted a hand with writing a simple script to copy a line and change the layer to a specific layer. It going from Layer "50" to "TRAV" and I wanted this changed line copied on to of itself.

 

I have a pretty good understanding of TCL as I have written in that when using Surpac but I'm at a new job now and trying to educate myself with a few basic but useful scripts.

 

Any help will be great.

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There are various ways a couple of examples using lisp. Copy and paste to the command line then just type copyself.

 

(defun c:copyself ()
(setq Newlyr (getstring "Enter destination layer ")) 
(command "copy" (Entsel) "" '(0 0) '(0 0));;creates a copy on same layer
(command "-chprop" (entlast) "" "LA" NewLyr "");;changes orig to new layer
)

(defun c:copyself ()
(setq Newlyr (getstring "Enter destination layer "))
(vla-copy (vlax-ename->vla-object (car (entsel)))) ;creates a copy on same layer
(vla-put-layer (vlax-ename->vla-object  (entlast)) newlayer) ;changes copy to new layer
)

Some more help

http://www.cadtutor.net/forum/showthread.php?98213-Copy-text-into-same-place-but-in-different-layer

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Hello,

 

Thanks very much for this, although I am getting the following. "Select object: Error: ActiveX Server returned an error: Parameter not optional"

 

The destination layer will always be TRAV is it possible to have this fixed?

 

B

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Hello,

 

Thanks very much for this, although I am getting the following. "Select object: Error: ActiveX Server returned an error: Parameter not optional"

 

The destination layer will always be TRAV is it possible to have this fixed?

 

B

 

Obviously:

"You are passing a nil argument to some vla-whatever function."

 

So there was a typo:

(setq [color="red"]Newlyr [/color](getstring "Enter destination layer "))
(vla-copy (vlax-ename->vla-object (car (entsel)))) ;creates a copy on same layer
(vla-put-layer (vlax-ename->vla-object  (entlast)) [color="red"]Newlyr[/color]) ;changes copy to new layer

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