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    Default Match Properties command, use the Settings option Luke

    Just stumbled across this one. If you use the matchprop tool button it simply matches the properties of one object to another, however when you have selected the source object you can type S or right click and pick settings, in the dialogue box that appears you can choose which properties you want to match, for example match all properties except line type style etc.

    Or does everyone already know this?

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    Default Re: Match Properties command, use the Settings option Luke

    I use it mainly for hatches. Inherit Properties within the hatch dialogue doesn't affect layer, colour, linetype. Matchprop (Property Painter) does.

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    Default Re: Match Properties command, use the Settings option Luke

    I didn't realize that. Now that I actually read (settings) on the command line, it should be pretty useful. Good tip.

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    Default Re: Match Properties command, use the Settings option Luke

    Quote Originally Posted by dzatto
    I didn't realize that. Now that I actually read (settings) on the command line, it should be pretty useful. Good tip.
    Make that 2 personas. So many times I matched properties on
    dimensions just to match the dimension scale. I had to reapply
    any tolerances, gee gads!

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    Default Re: Match Properties command, use the Settings option Luke

    Can't believe I didn't know that one. Nice "find"

    Now when ever those pesky Microstation users say AutoCAD is rubbish for not being able to match specific properties of an object I can tell them it CAN be done.

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    Default Re: Match Properties command, use the Settings option Luke

    Very nice tip!!
    I use Match Properties all the time and didn't realize we had a choice.

    thanks!

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    Default Re: Match Properties command, use the Settings option Luke

    Its strange isn't it, something I have used everyday for years but only just noticed.

    I actually found it by looking at old and deleted Acad commands, match properties used to be 'painter' this still works now (in 2006 anyway).

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    Question Re: Match Properties command, use the Settings option Luke

    I am looking for a way to change an objects properties to what is set in the layer manager without having to draw a line and use match properties. I am changing our old standards to our new conventions and have to change the properties for everything. Once my layer manager is set up I want to be able to change all properties for any given object without having to draw a worthless line, and then match properties, and then delete that useless line. Or without having to go into the properties menu and change all properties manually. Is there a way to do this?

    And those pesky Microstation users aren't referring to match properties as in pick an object and match another to it. They are referring to what I am looking for here. A one button solution to match any object to the properties set in the layer manager. The only answer I can get from the Autocad guru's here is to draw a line and use match properties.
    Which creates two extra and unwanted steps. Drawing the useless line, and then having to delete it.
    Last edited by mporter; 2007-02-20 at 05:39 PM.

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    Default Re: Match Properties command, use the Settings option Luke

    Should your properties (other than layer) end up as "bylayer".

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    Default Re: Match Properties command, use the Settings option Luke

    Yes, that is what I am trying to get them to be. I have everything in the layer manager set. I have the layer toolbar on the correct layer and everything in the properties toolbar set to bylayer. If I use the "change to current layer" button, it only changes the layer and none of the properties change to bylayer. I have to either draw a line and use the match properties tool, or go in the properties box and change them all manually. Is there no "change properties tool" that will change all the properties of a given object to "bylayer" (or whatever you want them to be) either from the layer manager or the properties toolbar settings?

    Oh ya, I am useing Autocad 2007.....
    Last edited by mporter; 2007-02-20 at 09:10 PM.

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