Obtain Database Information from a Drawing

You can display properties for one or more objects in your drawing.

A text window displays the object type, object layer, and X,Y,Z position relative to the current user coordinate system (UCS) and whether the object is in model space or paper space.

LIST reports color, linetype, and lineweight information if these items are not set to BYLAYER. The thickness of an object is displayed if it is nonzero. Z coordinate information defines the elevation. If the extrusion direction of the entry differs from the Z axis (0,0,1) of the current UCS, LIST also reports the extrusion direction in UCS coordinates.

LIST reports additional information related to the specific object selected.

You can use LIST to display and then copy the properties of selected objects to a text file.

Procedures

To list database information for objects

  1. Click Home tab Measure panel List.
  2. Select one or more objects and press ENTER.

    The text window displays a report.