move entities

Is it possible to use the (command "move"... with a selection set or a
list of entities, and how would it be done.

My function creates text and line objects and then needs to move the
group as a whole depending on the size of the text objects utilizing
textbox.

 

Phil,

Not sure if I understand your question, so please excuse if this seems
to basic. If you have a selection set, you can supply that set as an
argument to the command function:

;; Select objects
(setq ss (ssget))

;; Do the move
(command ".move" ss "" "0,0" "2,2")


On the other hand, if you have a list of enames, you can create pickset
and feed that to the command function:

;; Assuming e1 e2 e3 e4 are enames
(setq elist (list e1 e2 e3 e4))

;; Initialize a pickset
(setq ss (ssadd))

;; Add the enames from the list to the pickset
(mapcar '(lambda (e) (ssadd e ss)) elist)

;; Do the move
(command ".move" ss "" "0,0" "2,2")

Steve Doman

 

Thanks that answers it. I did try the selset without success. I think
I missed something in the command line.

 

wElcoMe!