How to Retrieve Object Properties

[ksperopoulos]

I am trying to find a way to view a list of an object's properties to use while trying to develop a lisp. I feel like I am looking in every place except the correct one. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Thanks for any help you can give.

[Lee Mac]

You can view the list of available ActiveX Properties & Methods for an object (including the number of parameters required by each method) by passing the VLA-Object to the vlax-dump-object function.

 

You can also view the entire AutoCAD Object Model, including a list of Properties & Methods for every object (and documentation for each Property / Method) in the ActiveX Developer Documentation (found in the acadauto.chm file, or made available online here).

[BIGAL]

Heres the lisp for dump object

 

;;;===================================================================; 
;;; DumpIt                                                            ; 
;;;-------------------------------------------------------------------; 
;;; Dump all methods and properties for selected objects              ; 
;;;===================================================================; 
(defun C:DumpIt ( / ent) 
 (while (setq ent (entsel)) 
   (vlax-Dump-Object 
     (vlax-Ename->Vla-Object (car ent)) 
   ) 
 ) 
 (princ) 
)

[Tharwat]

;;; DumpIt                                                           
;;; Dump all methods and properties for selected objects 

 

That gives only Properties and to get methods as well , you should add T to the function Vlax-Dump-object

[ksperopoulos]

thank you for the help.