LIST

LIST tells you everything Musa CAD knows about an object: what kind it is, its layer and other properties, and its exact geometry. Use it to check a length, a radius or an area, or to find out why an object looks the way it does. It changes nothing.

How it works

Type LI and press Enter. Select the objects, then press Enter. Musa CAD prints a block of facts for each one. If objects are already selected when you start LIST, it lists them straight away.

Command line

Command: LI
Select objects: (click a line and a circle) Enter
                  LINE      Layer: "0"
                            Space: Model space
                            Handle = 10
                            Color: BYLAYER    Linetype: BYLAYER    Lineweight: BYLAYER
             from (20.0000,10.0000) to (50.0000,50.0000)
             length 50.0000
             Length = 50.0000,  Angle in XY Plane = 53
             Delta X = 30.0000,  Delta Y = 40.0000,  Delta Z = 0.0000
                  CIRCLE      Layer: "0"
                            Space: Model space
                            Handle = 30
                            Color: BYLAYER    Linetype: BYLAYER    Lineweight: BYLAYER
             centre (100.0000,50.0000)
             radius 25.0000
             area 1963.4954,  circumference 157.0796

Reading the report

Each block has the same parts, in this order.

Part	What it tells you
Kind and Layer	The kind of object in capitals, such as LINE, CIRCLE, POLYLINE or MTEXT, and the layer it is on.
Space	Model space, or Paper space followed by the layout’s name in brackets.
Handle	Musa CAD’s own number for the object. Yours will be different from the example.
Color, Linetype, Lineweight	BYLAYER when the object takes it from its layer. Otherwise the colour as red, green and blue numbers (such as 255,0,0), the linetype’s name, and the lineweight in mm (such as 0.35 mm). If the object has its own linetype scale, Linetype scale: follows. A hidden object shows (hidden).
Geometry	One fact per line. What you see depends on the kind of object; see below.
Size	A line ends with its length, angle and X and Y differences. A circle ends with its area and circumference. A closed polyline, ellipse, spline or hatch ends with its area and perimeter; an open one with its length. An arc ends with its length and the angle it spans.

The geometry lines for common objects:

Object	Geometry lines
Line	from (x,y) to (x,y), length
Circle	centre (x,y), radius
Arc	centre (x,y), radius, from start angle to end angle
Polyline	the number of vertices, open or closed, and constant width or the segment widths if it has any
Ellipse	center (x,y), major radius, minor radius, rotation
Text	height, and the words in quotes
Dimension	measures, the value measured from the points it is attached to, and any text override
Table	the number of rows and columns

Lengths and angles use the drawing’s units. By default, lengths show four decimals and angles show whole degrees. Change this with UNITS.

Good to know

• A dimension’s report shows what it really measures, worked out from its points. If someone typed different text over the number, the text override shows that too, so you can spot it.
• LIST changes nothing, so it adds no undo step.
• The report can be long. Scroll the command line to read it all.
• To list every object in the drawing, use DBLIST.

Compared with AutoCAD

LIST prints a block per object laid out like AutoCAD’s, with the kind and layer first, then the space, handle and properties, then the geometry.

Next

• Measure between two points with DIST.
• See and change properties in the PROPERTIES palette.
• Find an area and perimeter with AREA.