Using pause

[gpd]

Hi,

 

Consider following code

 

(command "move" obj "" p1 pause)

 

when the command reaches 'pause' If I right click (to keep the object in same location) instead of left click, the object automatically moves to some strange location. Same is the case with copy command. I noticed same happens even if we use the commands manually. This happens with all the entities line/pline/block etc.

 

Can somebody explain this behaviour of AutoCAD.

 

Thanks.

[Lee Mac]

When right-clicking at the prompt:

 

Specify second point or <use first point as displacement>:

You are selecting to: .

 

This means the vector from the origin to the first selected point is used as the displacement vector.

 

e.g.

 

[alanjt]

Just cheat and use the acet-ss-drag-move function (if you have Express Tools).

 

eg.

;; (acet-ss-drag-move <selection-set> <base-pt> [<prompt>] [<hilight> [<cursor>]])

(defun c:test (/ ss p1 p2)
 (if (and (setq ss (ssget "_:L"))
          (setq p1 (getpoint "\nSpecify base point: "))
          (setq p2 (acet-ss-drag-move ss p1 "\nSpecify second point: " T))
     )
   (command "_.move" ss "" "_non" p1 "_non" p2)
 )
 (princ)
)