Highlight Entities

Is there a method of highlighting entities other than the object.highlight method.

I would like to highlight an entity (or entities) by changing the colour to red and changing all other entities to white.

 

I had a similar requirement recently. I ended up selecting the candidate
entities, copying them to a separate, dedicated layer, then changing color
on the copies, and grouping them. The separate layer made removal the
colored copies easy. The originals remained unaffected. I also made the
colored group blink a few times to further increase visibility.

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John Goodfellow
irtfnm
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to red and changing all other entities to white.

 

John, thanks for your reply

I thought of doing something similar but this method runs into problems with entities within blocks that are not colour BYBLOCK.

Out of interest, how do you get entities to flash?

Regards
Tom Roberts

 

I'm >copying< the blocks to a special layer, so I own them and can hack them
as I need. They're temporary. The originals remain undisturbed. Our
entities and blocks are generally colored BYLAYER, so the color change to
the group does propagate to its parts. The flash is done old fashioned way.
Just set up a timer loop and toggle the group's visible property.
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John Goodfellow
irtfnm
use john at goodfellowassoc dot com

with entities within blocks that are not colour BYBLOCK.