Filtering by Xdata

[JasonSelf]

I know that the following

(setq #filter (ssget "x" '((8. "defpoints"))))

would add to my selection set everything on the defpoints layer

I would like to do simular but searching for custom xdata of a certain value like
'((-3 ("CUSTOM" (1000 . "CUSTOMVALUE"))))

I thought the following might do the trick but it doesn't

(setq #filter (ssget "x" '((-3. "CUSTOMVALUE))))

Can anyone explain to me where I missed the target?

Thanks,
Jason Self

[kennet.sjoberg]

. . .I thought the following might do the trick but it doesn't

(setq #filter (ssget "x" '((-3. "CUSTOMVALUE))))

Can anyone explain to me where I missed the target?

Thanks,
Jason Self

Yes, you are missing characters marked in red

(setq #filter (ssget "x" '((-3. ("CUSTOMVALUE")))))

: ) Happy Computing !

kennet

[JasonSelf]

THANK YOU KENNET!
That makes me feel alot better about my understanding of using selection sets and entity data. the " was a typo but the ( ) I wasn't aware that I needed.

[JasonSelf]

Ok, well that didn't seem to work out for me... I will try to clarify my situation, hopefully that will help.

This is the entity I am wanting to be added to my selection set when I run my filter. I want it to grab this object based on the (-3 ("KEYKEEPER_INDEX" (1000. "KK0001"))) data.

((-1 . <Entity name: 7ed35150>) (0 . "INSERT") (330 . <Entity
name: 7ed24cf8>) (5 . "C432") (100 . "AcDbEntity") (67 . 0) (410 . "Model") (8
. "D-EL-POWR-T") (100 . "AcDbBlockReference") (66 . 1) (2 . "MIS3") (10
-43540.6 33624.1 0.0) (41 . 1.0) (42 . 1.0) (43 . 1.0) (50 . 0.0) (70 . 0) (71
. 0) (44 . 0.0) (45 . 0.0) (210 0.0 0.0 1.0) (-3 ("KEYKEEPER_INDEX" (1000 .
"KK0001"))))

 (ssget "x" '((-3. ("KK0001"))))

gets me the error ; error: bad SSGET list

[jspartz]

It's not possible to search for a xdata value straight through the ssget function. You can only get the xdata app name through ssget, like so:

(setq ss (ssget "X" '((-3 ("KEYKEEPER_INDEX")))))

There was someone who wrote a xdata value searcher a long time ago. It was on 4d-technologies.com, but they must have taken it down. It was called ssget_xd. I would write them for it if you really need it.

You can also speed it up, but filtering for the type of object it is attached to, or layer. So, if your xdata is only attached to blocks, you can speed it up by only looking through blocks, like so:

(setq ss (ssget "X" '((0 . "INSERT") (-3 ("KEYKEEPER_INDEX")))))

[kennet.sjoberg]

. . .This is the entity I am wanting to be added to my selection set . . .

Select all objects with ssget "_x" that belong to the application "KEYKEEPER_INDEX"
then iterate trough them to find objects marked with "KK0001"
and add those objects to your selectionset.

: ) Happy Computing !

kennet

[fs683966]

Thanks jspartz! The code for ssget_xd is at