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Click Home tab ➤ Data panel ➤ Define Query.
The definition of the loaded query appears in the Define Query dialog box.
Depending on the options you specified when you saved the query, it may
change the active drawings or load property alteration settings. You can modify
the query or click Execute Query to execute the query.
Category list
Select a category to save your query in.
Use categories to organize queries. (When you run a query, you first select
a category, and then see all the queries in that category.)
If you have only a few queries, you can save them all in the same category.
Queries list
View all the queries assigned to the selected category.
To load a query, choose it from the list. Click OK.
Selected Query display
View the name and description of the selected query.
Location Condition dialog box
NOTE This functionality applies only to drawing objects.
Use this dialog box to create or modify a location condition in a query.
To retrieve drawing objects based on their location (page 1241)
Click Home tab ➤ Data panel ➤ Define Query.
A location condition finds drawing objects based on location relative to a
specified boundary. You can specify whether objects must be completely inside
the boundary or have any part inside the boundary.
For blocks or text objects, you can specify if their location is determined by
their insertion point or their bounding box. For hatch, solid, and raster objects,
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