Lisp: Delete Extra Annotative Scales from Objects

This routine has helped me many times when receiving drawings from others that include annotative blocks and text, you may not need as many scales that are applied to these annotative objects.

Everything looks fine with the received file shown below. When I hover over the text and blocks it shows that there are more than one annotation scales applied to them. This is indicated by the two annotative symbols.

Then you go ahead and select the annotative objects and that’s when these extra annotation scales start their fun.

 Even though you can manually delete scales from objects, it is time-consuming and can be prone to miss some objects. That is where this LISP routine comes in handy. provided by Irneb found [here].

When you are in model space, set your scale and then use this routine to purge out all of the scales except the current scale.

::: Delete Annotative Scale Execpt Current
;;; By Irneb
;;; http://www.cadtutor.net/forum/showthread.php?53069-Annotative-troubles&p=359702&viewfull=1#post359702

(defun c:ObjectScaleCurOnly (/ ss n scLst OSC:GetScales)
  (print "Select the objects you wish to modify: ")
  (if (or (setq ss (ssget "I")) (setq ss (ssget)))
    (progn
      ;; Define helper function to get scales attached to an entity
      (defun OSC:GetScales (en / ed xn xd cdn cdd asn asd cn cd sn sd cannoscale)
        (setq ed (entget en))
        (if (and
              ;; Get the XDictionary attached to the object
              (setq xn (vl-position '(102 . "{ACAD_XDICTIONARY") ed))
              (setq xn (cdr (nth (1+ xn) ed)))
              (setq xd (entget xn))
              ;; Get the Context Data Management dictionary attached to the XDictionary
              (setq cdn (vl-position '(3 . "AcDbContextDataManager") xd))
              (setq cdn (cdr (nth (1+ cdn) xd)))
              (setq cdd (entget cdn))
              ;; Get the Annotation Scales dictionary attached to the CD
              (setq asn (vl-position '(3 . "ACDB_ANNOTATIONSCALES") cdd))
              (setq asn (cdr (nth (1+ asn) cdd)))
              (setq asd (entget asn))
              ;; Get the 1st scale attached
              (setq cn (assoc 3 asd))
              (setq cn (member cn asd))
            )
          ;; Step through all scales attached
          (while cn
            (if (and (= (caar cn) 350) ;It it's pointing to a scale record
                     ;; Get the record's data
                     (setq cd (entget (cdar cn)))
                     ;; Get the Context data class
                     (setq sn (assoc 340 cd))
                     (setq sd (entget (cdr sn)))
                     (setq sn (assoc 300 sd))
                     ;; Check if the scale is already in the list
                     (not (vl-position (cdr sn) scLst))
                )
              ;; Add it to the list
              (setq scLst (cons (cdr sn) scLst))
            )
            (setq cn (cdr cn))
          )
        )
      )

      ;; Find a list of scales used in selection
      (setq n (sslength ss))
      (while (>= (setq n (1- n)) 0)
        (OSC:GetScales (ssname ss n))
      )

      ;; Add the current scale to the selection
      (setq cannoscale (getvar "CANNOSCALE"))
      (command "._ObjectScale" ss "" "_Add" cannoscale "")

      ;; Remove all other scales attached
      (command "._ObjectScale" ss "" "_Delete")
      (foreach n scLst
        (if (wcmatch (strcase n) (strcat "~" (strcase cannoscale)))
          (command n)
        )
      )
      (command "")
    )
  )

  (princ)
)