To View Extended Data Associated with an AutoCAD Object (Visual LISP IDE)

Extended data (xdata) attached to an entity can be viewed using Visual LISP.

Note: The Visual LISP IDE is available on Windows only.

1. In Visual LISP, click View Browse Drawing Database Inquire Extended Data.
2. In the Choose Applications to Show dialog box, select the application whose data you are interested in viewing. Select an application again to deselect it. Click OK.
3. In the AutoCAD drawing window, select the objects whose extended data you want to view.
4. In Visual LISP, click View ➤ Browse Drawing Database ➤ Browse Selection.

   Visual LISP displays an Inspect window listing the objects you selected:

   
5. In the Inspect window, element list, double-click an object whose extended data you want to view. Visual LISP displays an Inspect window for the object.
6. Select the object line in the Inspect window and right-click.
7. Click Inspect Raw Data.

   Visual LISP displays an Inspect window like the following:

   

   Extended data is identified by the -3 DXF group code. The last line in the entity list shows the extended data for the selected object. You can double-click on this line to open a separate Inspect window containing just the extended data.