Name Property (ActiveX)

Specifies the name of the object.

Supported platforms: Windows only

Signature

VBA:

object.Name

object

Type: Application, Block, BlockReference, ComparedReference, Dictionary, DimStyle, Document, ExternalReference, GeomapImage, Group, Layer, Layout, Linetype, Material, MenuGroup, MInsertBlock, MLeaderStyle, ModelSpace, PaperSpace, PlotConfiguration, PointCloud, PointCloudEx, PopupMenu, RasterImage, RegisteredApplication, Section, SelectionSet, Shape, TableStyle, TextStyle, Toolbar, ToolbarItem, UCS, View, Viewport, Wipeout, XRecord

The objects this property applies to.

Property Value

Read-only:

• No (except for Application, Document, MenuGroup, ModelSpace, PaperSpace, SelectionSet, TextStyle objects): AutoCAD
• No (except for Application, Document, Material, MenuGroup, ModelSpace, PaperSpace, PointCloud, PointCloudEx, SelectionSet, TextStyle objects): AutoCAD LT

Type: String

Name of the object.

Remarks

Application, Document: This property returns the file name only, not the path.

ToolbarItem: This name is used as the tooltip text.

MenuGroup: The name is limited to 32 characters and cannot contain spaces or punctuation marks.

Raster: This property is similar to the ImageFile property, except that this property does not contain path information.

XRecord: The name of the object within the dictionary in which it resides. This name does not represent the class name of the object.

BlockRef: A block reference can be assigned the name of only a valid block definition in the drawing. Assigning a block reference a unique name will not automatically create a new block definition. To create a new block definition, use the Add method to add a new Block object to the Blocks collection.

Examples

VBA:

Sub Example_Name()
    ' This example creates a new layer. It then
    ' changes the name of that layer.
    
    ' Add the new layer
    Dim layerObj As AcadLayer
    Set layerObj = ThisDrawing.Layers.Add("NewLayer")
    
    ' Find the name of the new layer
    Dim layerName As String
    layerName = layerObj.name
    MsgBox "A new layer was created with the name: " & layerObj.name, , "Name Example"
    
    ' Change the name of the layer to "TEST". Note that behavior of the
    ' following code will be different for different objects. In some cases such as
    ' Block reference, changing the name means referencing to a new Block and therefore
    ' a Block with named "TEST" should already exist: otherwise an error will be
    ' returned.
    layerObj.name = "TEST"
    layerName = layerObj.name
    MsgBox "The new name of the layer is: " & layerObj.name, , "Name Example"
    
End Sub

Visual LISP:

(vl-load-com)
(defun c:Example_Name()
    ;; This example creates a new layer. It then
    ;; changes the name of that layer.
    (setq acadObj (vlax-get-acad-object)
          doc (vla-get-ActiveDocument acadObj))

    ;; Add the new layer
    (setq layerObj (vla-Add (vla-get-Layers doc) "NewLayer"))
    
    ;; Find the name of the new layer
    (setq layerName (vla-get-Name layerObj))
    (alert (strcat "A new layer was created with the name: " layerName))
    
    ;; Change the name of the layer to "TEST". Note that behavior of the
    ;; following code will be different for different objects. In some cases such as
    ;; Block reference, changing the name means referencing to a new Block and therefore
    ;; a Block with named "TEST" should already exist: otherwise an error will be
    ;; returned.
    (vla-put-Name layerObj "TEST")
    (setq layerName (vla-get-Name layerObj))
    (alert (strcat "The new name of the layer is: " layerName))
)