How to get an object by name in lisp ?

Hi, everyone

I need to get an object in the drawing by its name in my Lisp program. In my drawing, it is a Block with some properties. I need to select it by using its name, how?

If someone can help me ? Thanks very much ! It's very urgent!

Felix

 

(setq ss (ssget "x" (list (cons 2 "YourBlockNameHere"))))

will create a selection set of insertions for a given block.

(setq data (tblsearch "block" "YourBlockNameHere"))
or
(setq data (tblobjname "block" "YourBlockNameHere"))

will give you the an entity list of the block definition

Hope this helps.


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to select it by using its name, how?

 

Felix_yu,
This is a method.

(vl-load-com)
(setq ent (car (entsel "\nSelect a Block:")))
(setq elist (entget ent))
(setq obj (vlax-ename->vla-object ent))
(setq oname (vlax-get obj 'ObjectName))
(prompt "\n ")
(princ ent)
(prompt "\n ")
(princ elist)
(prompt "\n ")
(princ obj)
(prompt "\n ")
(command "_erase" ent "")

 

typos! <grrr>

 

I got it and it works well. Thanks very much !

Felix