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To create a query to retrieve information from attached drawings
1 Open a drawing.
2 In Map Explorer (page 2068), under Current Drawing, right-click the
Drawings folder. Click Define/ModifyDrawing Set.
3 Make sure that the drawings you want to query are attached and active.
4 In
Map Explorer (page 2068), under Current Drawing, right-click Current
Query, and then click Define.
5 To zoom to the extents of all active drawings, click Zoom Ext in the
Define Query Of Attached Drawings dialog box.
6 In the Define Query dialog box (page 1838), select a Query Type to define
a condition for your query based on:
■
Location (page 1241)— such as inside a window you define.
■ Property (page 1244)— such as color, layer, or elevation.
■ Data (page 1248)— information stored with the object
■ SQL (page 1253)— information stored in external databases
7
To add conditions (page 1256), choose And or Or, and choose a query type.
To group conditions, select the first and last condition in the group. Click
Group. Conditions inside the parentheses are evaluated first.
8 If you want,
specify how to alter the properties of the objects retrieved
by the query
(page 1260).
9 Select a Query Mode to
specify how to view the objects (page 1287).
10 If you plan to use the query again,
save the query (page 176).
11 Click Execute Query.
You can view and edit the objects, then save them to a new file or save them
back to their original file.
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