obtaining enitydata with getpoint

Question,

I have a routine in witch i give a point beside a line, but i also want to
obtain the layer of this line. Unfortunately i cannot do something like
(entsel thispoint)

Has any body got an idea on how to get the layer of tis line using just the
information of the getpoint result. I also use (osnap point "nearest") to
get the exact point on the line.

MJ

 

Use (ssget thispoint) to get a selection set with one entity.

 

The (getpoint) returns just coordinates of a point, so its result by itself
cannot contain information from which you can get a layer name.

I can't quite tell from your description whether you want to save the point
BESIDE the line for some separate purpose, rather than saving the nearest
point ON the line. If you want both, you'd have to save that (getpoint)
result, and also save the association list from the line using (entget (car
(entsel))), applying "nearest" osnap to that point. (You could save that
nearest point (cadr entsel) if you want it, or not if all you want is the
association list.) Then you can get the layer name from the (entget) list.

Can you describe in more detail why you can't use (entsel thispoint)?

Kent Cooper, AIA


...

 

Kent,
Entsel can take a prompt but not a point argument.
You might be thinking about nentselp?

Regards,
Doug

 

This, I needed. And so simple!
Why didn't i think of this myself.

M