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■ In Display Manager (page 2060), click Data ➤ Add Drawing Data ➤ Query
Source Drawing. Be sure you have
attached (page 154) the DWG files
to query.
■ In
Display Manager (page 2060), click Data ➤ Add Drawing Data ➤ Query
Topology.
2 In the Define Query dialog box (page 1838), click SQL.
3 In the
SQL Link Condition dialog box (page 1866), select the link template
for the table to search.
If you chose Attached Drawings in Step 1, the link template list includes
only link templates for active attached drawings. If the link template is
not listed, verify that it is defined in the attached drawing.
4 Create a SQL condition by selecting a column, an operator, and a value.
To type the condition, click Type Condition.
5 Click Add Condition to add the condition to the Current SQL Condition
list.
6 To add more conditions, select And or Or. Create another condition.
7 When you finish building the SQL condition, click OK.
8 Optionally, define another condition. See
Combining Conditions (page
369).
9 In the Define Query dialog box, click OK.
The new layer appears in Display Manager. Objects that meet the conditions
of the query are included in this layer. To see the objects, you may need to
zoom to the drawing extents. Click Map Setup tab ➤ Map panel ➤ Zoom
Drawing Extents.
Quick Reference
New Display Manager Layer - Query
Creates a new query layer in Display Manager
In Display Manager, click Data ➤ Add Drawing Data
and then select a query type
Task Pane
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