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Quick Selection of Objects

CAD drafting Quick Selection of Objects 0        Ribbon: Home – Utilities > CAD software Quick Selection of Objects 1 Quick Selection

CAD drawing Quick Selection of Objects 2       Menu: EditCAD drafting Quick Selection of Objects 3 Quick Selection

CAD software Quick Selection of Objects 4       Properties bar – CAD drawing Quick Selection of Objects 5

CAD drafting Quick Selection of Objects 6       Context menu in the graphic area of the drawing: CAD software Quick Selection of Objects 7 Quick Selection…

CAD drawing Quick Selection of Objects 8 Command line: QS, QSELECT

Using the Quick selection command you can select objects using specified conditions.

In the Quick Selection dialog box, you can adjust the search conditions:

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Parameters:

Search options:

CAD software Quick Selection of Objects 10 In whole document

The search is performed in the whole document

CAD drawing Quick Selection of Objects 11 In current space

The search is performed in the current space

CAD drafting Quick Selection of Objects 12 In bounding box

The search is performed in the selected rectangular area in the drawing

CAD software Quick Selection of Objects 13 In current selection

The search is performed among selected objects in the drawing

If In bounding box or In current selection is selected, the Quick Selection dialog box temporarily closes to allow the rectangular area to be specified on the screen or for objects to be selected. TheCAD drawing Quick Selection of Objects 14 Set selection button becomes available after the area is specified or the objects are selected; using this button you can select a new rectangular area or change the current set of objects.

CAD drafting Quick Selection of Objects 15 Selection parameters

Include frozen and invisible layers – allows to search objects on frozen and invisible layers

Actions with selection:

CAD software Quick Selection of Objects 16 Result add to selection

Found objects will be added to the selected objects on the drawing.

CAD drawing Quick Selection of Objects 17 Result set to new selection

Objects corresponding to the specified search conditions are selected in the drawing, other objects are deselected

CAD drafting Quick Selection of Objects 18 Result subtract from selection

If objects were selected, they become deselected.

Managing filter templates:

CAD software Quick Selection of Objects 19 Presets

The button to call template managing functions and the list of saved templates.

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Save preset

 

Saves the preset selection conditions as a named template.

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Remove preset

 

Removes a preset selected in the list.

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The Clear option deletes all filter templates

CAD drawing Quick Selection of Objects 23 Reset conditions

Clears all conditions set in the Quick Selection dialog box.

To add a condition for object search:

1.      Click in the <Select object type> field and choose the required object type from the list:

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To reject the selection, click on None.

2.      There is a list of parameters of all objects belonging to this type and to the specified selection area:

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3.      Select the value of the required search parameter in the Value column:

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4.      Select a logic search condition in the ExprType column:

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Available logic conditions for search:

=

equals

!=

does not equal

less

more

>=

not less

<=

not more

Like

Search of substring.

Searches for objects whose parameter value contains the substring specified in the ExprType column.

Unlike

Search of substring.

Searches for objects whose parameter value does not contain the substring specified in the ExprType column.

 

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Note

For every object type you can set numerous search conditions using one or several parameters.

5.      To add another type of object, click on the <Select object type>bottom field:

The number of objects satisfying the search conditions is displayed in the bottom part of the dialog box: Object found: 3.

“Quick select” Functional Bar

Quick select functional bar is implemented for more convenient work.

CAD drawing Quick Selection of Objects 29       Ribbon: ManagePalettes > CAD drafting Quick Selection of Objects 30 Selection…

CAD software Quick Selection of Objects 31        Menu: View – Toolbars > Functional > Selection

CAD drawing Quick Selection of Objects 32        Command line: TABS > Selection

Selection bar functions like Quick selection dialog box.

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