Creating an UNNAMED group with LISP

How would you do it?
(command "-group"
doesn't have an option for unnamed - not even an undocumented option. A
group is not an object, right? So you can't make one with entmake, right?
How do you do it?

 

Bill,

Assuming you have a selection set assigned to symbol ss, this should do it.

(command "-group" "" "*" "" ss "")

Joe Burke

 

Thanks! Here's what it says in help:
Create
Creates a group.

Enter a group name or [?]: Enter a name or enter ?

Group names can be up to 31 characters long and can include letters,
numbers, and special characters dollar sign ($), hyphen (-), and underscore
(_) but not spaces. AutoCAD converts the name to uppercase characters.

Enter a group description: Enter up to 64 text characters or press
ENTER

Select objects:



Therefore, there is no documentation on unnamed groups (at least not where
it's supposed to be). I sent a comment to Autodesk..

 

Aha! It worked like a charm. I made a routine to mask dimension text in a
way similar to the way TEXTMASK.LSP does to TEXT and MTEXT (groups it,
too!). It works on only one dimension at a time right now. If I think it's
necessary later on, I'll fix it for multiple selection.

 

Bill,

You're welcome. Glad I could help.

Joe Burke