MATCHPROP — Match Properties

Copies the properties of one object to others.

• Command: MATCHPROP · Global name: _MATCHPROP · Alias: MA, PAINTER
• Ribbon: Home › Properties
• Menu: Modify

Copies the properties of one object (the source) to others: color, layer, linetype, linetype scale, lineweight, transparency, thickness and plot style, and the type-specific ones (dimension style, text style, hatch, polyline). It is the quick way to make some objects look like another one that is already right.

Usage

1. Enter MATCHPROP (or MA) or click Match Properties on the ribbon.

Select source object:

2. Select the source object.

Select destination object(s) or [Settings]:

3. Select the destination objects; you can select several times.
4. Press Enter: the destination objects take the properties of the source and the command ends.

Notes

• If a single object is selected before the command starts, it is used as the source.
• The Settings option chooses which properties are matched: it opens the Property Settings dialog box and also asks for them at the command line (the number of each property turns it on or off; Enter ends), for scripts. It applies to the whole session.

Properties to match (…); enter a number to change it or Enter:

• Special properties only pass between objects of the same kind (dimension to dimension, text or multiline text to text, hatch to hatch, polyline to polyline). Those of viewports, tables and multileaders are not available yet, nor material or shadow.
• It can be undone with UNDO.

See also

PROPERTIES · LAYMCH · Editing