Filter out a previously selected entsel

[3dwannab]

Hi,

 

Sorry for the heading, I spelt entsel all wrong. Can someone change that please.

 

I'm selecting a closed polyine using an entsel and the using an ssget to select other objects.

 

How do I filter out that entsel item.

 

Like so:

(setq ent_1 (car (entsel "\nPlease select something")))

 

Then filter it. I read in the docs you can't filter an entity (code 0). So how do I accomplish this?

 

My feeble attempt:

(while (not ent_1)
(setq ss_1 (ssget '((0 . "LWPOLYLINE") (-4 . "=") (70 . 1))))
)

[Lee Mac]

Since an ssget filter list cannot filter by entity name (DXF -1) or handle (DXF 5), you will need to either use ssdel to remove the ent_1 from ss_1 or exclude ent_1 when processing the set using a conditional to compare each entity/handle with that of ent_1.

[3dwannab]

Since an ssget filter list cannot filter by entity name (DXF -1) or handle (DXF 5), you will need to either use ssdel to remove the ent_1 from ss_1 or exclude ent_1 when processing the set using a conditional to compare each entity/handle with that of ent_1.

 

Thanks. Just thought there'd be a workaround.

 

Upon looking at this it's actually the entsel of a hatches polyline I need to exclude. I have a routine somewhere that can do this.