Proxy object frustration

[kDispoto]

Hey everybody.

I'm working on ACAD2002-win-xp and have received arch background dwgs from a client. Apparently these dwgs we originally created with arch desktop.

Some wall parts and door are proxy objects.
I need to send my dwgs to someone else who needs it in acad14. Neither one of us needs the built-in intellegence.

I've tried saving as r12.dxf - but the proxy objects get deleted in the process.

Is there a lisp routine which will help me filter them out and explode them into ordinary acad parts?

Thanks

Ken Dispoto

 

[kDispoto]

That would be fine - How do "not" select those items you mention when I explode everything? Would I use ssx?
Thanks again.

 

[James Maeding]

use the filter command and pick "BEGIN NOT" then your entity types, then "END NOT". If you have not used filter before, give it a try.

The reason you could use SSX is that it would select all items of the same type. You do not know the type so a pick is what you need. It figures out the entity type and grabs other stuff like it.

"kDispoto"
|>That would be fine - How do "not" select those items you mention when I |>explode everything? |>Would I use ssx?
|>Thanks again.

James Maeding
Civil Engineer/Programmer

 

[hutch]

unfortunitely you will have a problem my friend.
Proxy objects are pretty dumb... I doubt you will be
able to explode them, and dxf probably is the only way to even delete them. If I am not mistakened you will have to get another version of the drawing file from your arch supplier. The arch should create a copy of the dwg file. This copy then should have AecObjExplode ran on it. This file can then be opened in AutoCad 2002 and saved as R14. The intelegent objects will then be primitive objects (lines, arcs, circles, etc.)
Good luck.