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Believe it or not there are still 3 sets of icon menus embedded into the current CUI under: ACAD>Legacy>Image Tile Menus The following are snippets of code to launch each of them for user selection: #1) 3D Objects ; 3D Objects (defun c:3dm ()(menucmd "I=image_3DObjects")(menucmd "I=*")(princ)) After loading 3dm.lsp at the command prompt enter: 3dm #2) Set Spline Fit Variables ; Set Spline Fit Variables (defun c:sfv ()(menucmd "I=image_poly")(menucmd "I=*")(princ)) After loading sfv.lsp at the command prompt enter: sfv #3) Tiled Viewport Layout ; Tiled Viewport Layout (defun c:vpt ()(menucmd "I=image_vporti")(menucmd "I=*")(princ)) After loading vpt.lsp at the command prompt enter: vpt

Actually I prefer to use SelectSimilar. I've also used Filter. I'm not as well versed with QSelect.

When a drawing has hundreds of objects, selecting them one by one can take a lot of time. QSELECT lets you select objects based on their type or properties. For example, you can quickly select all circles, hatches, dimensions, or objects on a particular layer. I find it especially useful when I need to make the same change to many objects at once. How many of you use QSELECT regularly? What do you use it for most?

Try again :https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PEI9H3FrJosMIUunhefGpuIUOMdsqf8Z/view?usp=sharing

when I looked in the zip folder it was empty, extracting it brought up this message.

Portable Version Download: https://drive.google.com/file/d/11-X3d5gy_5TJ8OLeoTUw6KP4JTtL2STG/view?usp=sharing Run DwgToPdfPro.exe

@CivilTechSource the Block/dwg select is part of the POP menu interface, in particular the Icon section. It's just made with Notepad and you save a MNU file., Autocad handles the actual dcl. Re images yes they are slides, SLD files. Ok the how to. 1st step is you must shrink your screen area down to about 1/4 size. When slides were introduced screens were 640x480 so current screens are way more pixels. I use a lisp to make the slides insert say a block, zoom E, Zoom 0.9XP then MSLIDE, Erase last and insert next. Obviously the name of the saved slide is in the lisp. Without going into now you can make like 200 slides very quickly including inserting other block dwg's. You can use a program called Slide library it compresses all your slides into one SLB file a bit easier to manage, I have numerous slb files that contain common items eg landscaping, cars. ***MENUGROUP=CADARC ***POP1 **CADARC2018 [CADARC] LOAD CADARC]^C^C(LOAD "CA3ENTR2013")(LOAD "CA4USRLA-2") [->Set Up] [DRAWING SETUP]^c^C^p(load "ca11set") [--] ............. ............. ............. ............. ***icon **FURN [FURNITURE:] [CTONE(CHAIR-1)]^c^cINSERT ca3ch-1 DRAG \1;;DRAG [CTONE(CHAIR-2)]^c^cINSERT ca3ch-2 DRAG \1;;DRAG [CTONE(SOFA-1)]^c^cINSERT ca3sof1 DRAG \1;;DRAG

I see said the blind man...For example, Layer names come over with $0$ as if bound...thanks.

If I'm reading the official documentation correctly, the Insert setting only copies the object itself. The Bind setting brings along "named objects" associated with the object, that is, entities you would find in the Design Center, such as linetypes, layers, text styles, etc. You wouldn't notice them immediately, but they could interfere with the existing named objects in your drawing.

Looks neat, but is there any way to run/test it without the custom install? The IT department has us locked away from that type of thing.

Actually prior to NCOPY I used a lisp command called XCOPY that basically did similar operations. Also could someone explain to me what the difference is with NCOPY Settings set to Insert vs Bind. Irregardless of which setting the NCOPY object result is always a non-block object.