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When you create a group, you can give the group a name and description. If
you copy a group, the copy is given the default name Ax and is considered
unnamed.
If you choose a member of a group that can be selected for inclusion in a new
group, all members of the former group are included in the new group.
The objects in your drawing can be members of more than one group, and
groups themselves can be nested in other groups. You can ungroup a nested
group to restore the original group configuration.
Named groups are not maintained when you use a drawing as an external
reference or insert it as a block. However, you can bind and then explode the
external reference or explode the block to make the group available as an
unnamed group.
NOTE Avoid creating large groups containing hundreds or thousands of objects.
A large group significantly degrades the performance of this program.
Quick Reference
GROUP
Creates and manages saved sets of objects called groups.
PICKSTYLE
Controls the use of group selection and associative hatch selection.
Select Objects in Groups
There are several methods for choosing a group, including selecting the group
by name or selecting one of the members of the group.
You can select groups by name at the Select Objects prompt. If the PICKSTYLE
system variable is set to 1 or 3 and you select any member of a selectable
group, all group members that meet the selection criteria are selected. You
can also toggle group selection on and off by pressing Ctrl-H or Shift-Ctrl-A.
All members of selectable groups are also selected when you use object selection
cycling (for example, if you want to select an object that lies directly behind
another object). Selecting an object that is a member of more than one
selectable group selects all the members of all the groups that contain that
object. To select groups for editing with grips, use the pointing device to select
the group at the Command prompt.
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