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Use these methods to find and select drawing objects.
NOTE For information on finding, filtering, and selecting geospatial features, see
Overview of Finding and Selecting Features (page 1209).
DescriptionMethod
Select drawing objects based on their ob-
ject properties (such as color), object types,
Quick Select (page 1219)
or object classification, or to exclude
drawing objects from a selection set.
For example, you can select all of the red
road objects in a drawing without selecting
any other object, or you can select all ob-
jects except the red roads.
Find records in an attached database. If
database records are linked to objects in a
Data View (page 1221)
drawing, you can highlight records linked
to objects you select.
Use queries to retrieve drawing objects and
transform them if needed.
Queries (page 1235)
Using Quick Select to Select Drawing Objects
You can use Quick Select (QSELECT) to select drawing objects based on their
object properties (such as color), object types, or object classification. You can
also use Quick Select to exclude drawing objects from a selection set.
NOTE For information on selecting geospatial features, see Searching For and
Selecting Features
(page 1214).
For example, you can select all of the red road objects in a drawing without
selecting any other object, or you can select all objects except the red roads.
When using Quick Select to select drawing objects based on color, linetype,
or line weight, first consider whether these properties are set to BYLAYER in
the AutoCAD layer definition. For example, an object may appear red because
its color is set to BYLAYER and the layer color is red.
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