Short description

🧩 SelectStraightEntities automatically finds and selects orthogonal LINE LWPOLYLINE and POLYLINE geometry in the current AutoCAD layout.
📐 Accepted segments must run at approximately 0 90 180 or 270 degrees and lightweight polylines must contain no bulged arc segments.
🚫 Geometry on layer PAGE_LIMIT_02 is explicitly excluded.

Command:

Main command: SelectStraightEntities

Description:

🌐 The routine scans the current CTAB only using global selection filters.
📏 LINE objects are accepted when their XY direction is orthogonal within a small tolerance.
📐 LWPOLYLINE and POLYLINE objects are accepted only when every checked segment is orthogonal.
⭕ Any nonzero bulge value causes the polyline to be rejected.
🚫 Objects on PAGE_LIMIT_02 are skipped regardless of geometry.
✅ All accepted entities are combined and made the active AutoCAD selection set.

Helper function: (if any)

angle-is-ortho tests XY segment angles against orthogonal directions.
lwpline-is-ortho checks polyline bulges and segment angles.
line-is-ortho checks one LINE entity.
sssetfirst activates the resulting selection set.

Functionalities:

✅ Automatic drawing scan – requires no manual object selection.
✅ Current layout filtering – uses CTAB to limit the scan.
✅ LINE detection – selects horizontal and vertical lines.
✅ LWPOLYLINE detection – selects polylines containing only horizontal and vertical straight segments.
✅ POLYLINE detection – attempts the same orthogonal test on old polyline entities.
✅ Arc exclusion – rejects polyline geometry containing nonzero bulge values.
✅ Layer exclusion – ignores PAGE_LIMIT_02.
✅ Selection handoff – leaves valid entities actively selected.

Result:

🎯 The result is an active selection containing orthogonal line and polyline geometry from the current layout except objects on PAGE_LIMIT_02.

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XAML code:

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