qkungroup Acad LT ungroup in Acad 1

[SAIJeff]

Hi, I asked a question last week reguarding the pkfstgroup command in Acad LT to create an unnamed group by just clicking the icon and selecting the objects. THe pkfstgroup command is not availible in Acad, but Ozzy84 was able to tell me the command to make this work in Acad. Now I need to make a command that explodes a group by just clicking the icon and then clicking on the group. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks,
Jeff

 

[OZZY84]

Jeff,

why create un-named groups, then explode them?
there might be a better way.
please give some details.

Intel P4 1.7 GHZ
768 RDRAM
Win 2000 Pro
Autocad 14, 2002 with EP 2.3.1

 

[SAIJeff]

Ozzy84, it is fast to create an un-named group (just click and select items) and I don't really care about the name. Once items are grouped, it makes it easy to move them around. To change the relation of the items in the group, you would explode it. I guess you could also great a button that would change a group from selectable to unselectable and back? Just a thought.
Thanks,
Jeff

 

[OZZY84]

now it is clear,
yes you can create groups with this button.

^C^C-GROUP;;*;;\;

(by the way, not a command, just a MACRO [series of commands with enters and user inputs])

to change selectable you need the name of the group, which defeats the purpose of un-named group, so i would turn groups on & off

when on = select one and all objects in group are selected
when off = select one and ONLY one object seleted

two ways come to mind:

1. [GR] @ command prompt = options (groups on or off)

2. copy below code as before to make Group On button
^C^Cpickstyle;1;

to make Group off button
^C^Cpickstyle;0;




Intel P4 1.7 GHZ
768 RDRAM
Win 2000 Pro
Autocad 14, 2002 with EP 2.3.1

 

[OZZY84]

Jeff,

last time you copied

^C^C-GROUP;;*;;\;

edit this macro to read

^C^C-GROUP;;*;;

it still worked but gave an error "beep", now smooth.

hope this helps

Intel P4 1.7 GHZ
768 RDRAM
Win 2000 Pro
Autocad 14, 2002 with EP 2.3.1

 

[nextvkin]

Thanks OZZY84,
That group tip is fantastic - I'd been looking for it for quite awhile now - I've now incorporated it in my menu and it works. Is there a similar one to UNgroup it ie without having to use the dialog box? Everhopeful.

 

[mkroen]

This thread is really old so hopefully you're not overly tired with it. I've just recently switched firms & have switched back to AutoCAD from Microstation (yes, I know most people dread it, but I LOVED it). Microstation had the quick group function. You simply selected whatever you wanted, hit Ctrl + G & it acted as one object. Select the one object (that is really many acting as one) hit Ctrl + U & it ungrouped. I used it constantly & miss it. In this thread it sounds like you figured out how to do this in AutoCAD, but I'm a bit new to the whole "writing my own macros".
So, my question...
Am I on the right track here?
Do you know how to do this?
Any chance there's a beginner's version explanation on how to make this happen?
Thanks for any advice