2000

AutoCAD 2000 Preview Guide Page 13 00000-005000-5513
Find –Find and Replace Text
AutoCAD 2000 introduces the Find feature, which provides you with a quick and easy method for finding
and replacing text within a drawing file. You can use the Find tool to locate text in block attributes,
dimension annotations, and hyperlink/URL names. Once you have located text of interest, the Zoom
option enables you to locate and zoom to it in the drawing file. Highly flexible search options include
case-sensitive searches, whole-word only searches, searches restricted to specific types of text (e.g.
URLs), or searches limited to the current selection set instead of the whole drawing.
Find and Replace Text dialog
Quick Select – a Quick Selection Set Builder
The new Quick Select dialog, representing a subset of the FILTER command, intuitively, eases and
simplifies the process of creating and filtering selection sets based on object properties such as object
type, layer, color, linetype, or lineweight. Filters may be applied either inclusively or exclusively to the
entire drawing or to the current selection set. With Quick Select, for example, a filtered selection set
Quick Select Dialog