Setting ByLayer/ByBlock to blocks/blockrefs

Sebastian

For people interested in setting all blocks to ByLayer and all blockrefs to ByLayer at once I scripted as below with the help of PyRx.

import traceback

from pyrx_imp import Ap, Db

print("added command = blockref2byblock")

@Ap.Command()

def blockref2byblock():

try:

db = Db.curDb()

clr = Db.Color()
    
    # Setting blocks to ByBlock
    clr.setColorIndex(0)
    bt = Db.BlockTable(db.blockTableId())
    for btrid in bt.toDict().values():
        btr = Db.BlockTableRecord(btrid)
        if btr.isLayout() or btr.isFromExternalReference():
            continue
        for id in btr.objectIds():
            Db.Entity(id, Db.OpenMode.kForWrite).setColor(clr)
    print("Set block colors to isByBlock", clr.isByBlock())

    # Setting blockrefs to ByLayer
    clr.setColorIndex(256)
    for id in db.objectIds(Db.BlockReference.desc()):
        Db.Entity(id, Db.OpenMode.kForWrite).setColor(clr)
    print("Set blockref colors to isByLayer", clr.isByLayer())

except Exception as err:
    traceback.print_exception(err)

ALANH

A good idea providing Python functions maybe do a word Doc with descriptions of your Python functions and save those into a ZIP file. I have a word doc for some of my lisps, no code just a description.

Lisp files Apr 2024.docx

Cadtutor has a section called downloads so can save files there for downloading would be good here also.

ALANH

Another is this for lisp CAD ←→ Excel which has many functions in it, a Python version would be good.

Alan Excel library.lsp