Send objects (wipeouts) to back

[.chad]

Not sure if this should go here or someplace else (depends on results I guess) but - I'm hoping someone can help me with a script / lisp / ? that will let me select all objects of a type, in this case wipeouts, and send them all to the back. Currently I can do this with quick select but doing it 100 times a day gets old. I tried to use the action recorder but it didn't save my input in the qselect box so it only saves me a half a step.

I've tried it as a script but I just don't know enough about the commands themselves to figure out how to do that one

What ever solution comes up it would need to work within the block editor since that's where 90% of the wipeouts are.

Thanks!

[Opie]

Will this work for you? You can rename the command name by changing the t1 to whatever name you want it to be.

(defun c:t1 ( / ss1 )(if (setq ss1 (ssget "X" '((0 . 
"WIPEOUT"))))(command "_.draworder" ss1 "" "_Back")))

[.chad]

That seems to do the trick. Thanks!

[irneb]

Here's some more complex code which works inside of blocks as well (i.e. if the wipeout is inside a block).

The command is: BlockWipeouts2Bottom.

I'll have to give credit to Lee Mac for his routines to change DrawOrder without using the command line - saved me some coding.

Anyhow, there's some other commands as well. The most used over here is LayerstoTop: it basically then rearranges specified layers in order. See line 212 to change the list of layers (wildcards allowed) to have those you want at the very top 1st, then the next and so on.

Edit: For some reason the attachment didn't work. Hope it works now!

[Lee Mac]

Thanks for the mention Irneb, I'm glad I could help in some way

FYI, here are the latest versions:

http://lee-mac.com/draworderfunctions.html

Have a good weekend,

Lee

[.chad]

Here's some more complex code which works inside of blocks as well (i.e. if the wipeout is inside a block).

The command is: BlockWipeouts2Bottom.

I'll have to give credit to Lee Mac for his routines to change DrawOrder without using the command line - saved me some coding.

Anyhow, there's some other commands as well. The most used over here is LayerstoTop: it basically then rearranges specified layers in order. See line 212 to change the list of layers (wildcards allowed) to have those you want at the very top 1st, then the next and so on.

Edit: For some reason the attachment didn't work. Hope it works now!

oooh. that works without being in block editor! That's some hot stuff. Between the 2 lisps I think I'm good for a bit One of these days I'll learn how to write the things...