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If you to find in your utility or menu-macro whether the current drawing is a 2D or 3D drawing file, or whether it doesn't contain any visual entities, you can use the following simple AutoLISP functions (predicates):

;is current drawing 2D? (defun is2D-p () (and (zerop (caddr (getvar "EXTMIN")))(zerop (caddr (getvar "EXTMAX")))) ; Z-boundingbox = 0? ) ;is current drawing 3D? (defun is3D-p () (< (caddr (getvar "EXTMIN"))(caddr (getvar "EXTMAX"))) ; Z-boundingbox ? ) ;is current drawing visually empty? (vl-load-com) (defun isEmpty-p () (vla-regen (vla-get-activedocument (vlax-get-acad-object)) 1) (> (caddr (getvar "EXTMIN"))(caddr (getvar "EXTMAX"))) ; min>max? )

The functions - e.g. (is2D-p) - return the values of T (true) or nil (false) in AutoCAD.

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