Drafting routine wanted

Does anybody know a routine that enables you to predefine the location of
different entities to different layers in abn automatic manner?
E.g all text goes automatically to the text layer, all dimension to the dim
layer etc?

PM Josefson

 

Yes, it is quite easy.
You just create a macro that in a tool button or icon such as

(setq oldlayer (getvar "clayer"))
(setvar "clayer" " your text layer name here")
dtext;
(setvar "clayer" oldlayer)

Dave Alexander
Keen Engineering Co. Ltd.
www.keen.ca

 

Try AUTOLAY.LSP
by Eric Schneider.
I think you can find it in the customer files section.
Or try a google search for autolay.lsp

 

You might want to think twice about doing this unless all text will be located in layout space. You might also give consideration to what happens to text which is included in editable attribute blocks.

 

You can do this with vba using the BeginCommand event handler.
When someone issues the hatch command ours automatically switches to hatch
layer.
dimensions are automatically put on dimension layer etc.
We have different text layers for different types of text so we use pull
downs for the text that sets the layer first, but if someone tries to draw
something other than text on a text layer we have a message box that says
that text layers are for text only and then it escapes from the command.

Graeme