May 2011
Beginner
560 pages
15h 25m
English
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Perfecting Selecting
When you edit in command-first mode, you have all the selection options described in the previous section — single object, window box, window polygon, crossing polygon, and crossing box — plus a slew of others. If you type ? and press Enter at any Select objects prompt, AutoCAD lists all the selection options at the command line:
Window/Last/Crossing/BOX/ALL/Fence/WPolygon/CPolygon/
Group/Add/Remove/Multiple/Previous/Undo/AUto/
SIngle/SUbobject/Object
Table 10-1 summarizes the most useful command-first selection options.
Table 10-1 Some Useful Command-First Selection Options
| Option | Description |
| Window | All objects completely within a rectangular area that you specify by picking two points |
| Crossing | All objects within or crossing a rectangular area that you specify by picking two points |
| WPolygon | All objects completely within a polygonal area whose corners you specify by picking points |
| CPolygon | All objects within or crossing a polygonal area whose corners you specify by picking points |
| Fence | All objects touching an imaginary polyline whose vertices you specify by picking points |
| Last | The last object you drew (whether or not it's visible in the display) |
| Previous | The previous selection set that you specified |
| ALL | All objects on layers that aren't frozen or locked and that are in the current space (model space or paper space) |
To use any of the command-first selection options at the Select objects prompt, type the uppercase letters indicated in ...
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