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Table Of Contents

Bringing In Drawing Objects by Property

NOTE This topic applies to AutoCAD drawing objects. To bring in geospatial data,

see

Overview of Bringing In GIS Features (page 305).

In your map, you can create a

drawing layer (page 2060) in Display Manager that

includes objects that have a specific property. You can select from objects in

the current map, or from objects in attached drawings.

For example, you can select all roads with a dashed linetype.

TIP You can combine a property condition with other conditions to create specific

queries. For example, you could find all parcels that are zoned Residential and

have an elevation lower than 50.

Additional Information

■ If an object has the property set to BYLAYER, it will be selected only if you

set the search value to BYLAYER.

For example, if you search for a DASHED linetype, you will get only objects

that have the linetype set to DASHED; you will not get objects that have

that linetype because they reside on a layer with a DASHED linetype. To

get these objects, you must set the search value to BYLAYER.

■ Custom objects do not appear in the Object Type values list until you load

the DBX module for the object.

■ Because topology information is stored in object data, use a data condition

to search for the following properties of topology objects: area, length,

perimeter, direction, direct resistance, and reverse resistance.