About Viewing Objects in the Drawing Database (Visual LISP IDE)

Visual LISP allows you to view objects that are stored in the current drawing.

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

You can view the data for:

• All or selected drawing entities
• Symbol tables
• Blocks
• Extended data (Xdata)

Drawing entities

You can list and browse the data for all or a selection set of drawing entities. When you choose to view all drawing entities, all entities stored in model space and each paper space block associated with named layouts are listed.

Note: VERTEX and ATTRIB entity types are not included in this list. You access these entity types through their parent entities, which are available when you inspect POLYLINE and INSERT entities.

Tables (Named symbol tables)

Lists the named symbol tables that are in the current drawing. The named symbol tables available are:

• Blocks
• Dimension Styles
• Layers
• Linetypes
• Registered Applications
• Text Styles
• User Coordinate Systems
• Viewports
• Views

Blocks

Lists the blocks stored in the current drawing’s block table. From the list of blocks, you can list and browse the data for all entities in a selected block.

Extended data (Xdata)

Lists the applications currently registered (through regapp) as containing extended data. If you select an application from this list, its extended data is included in the Inspect window element list.