QUICK SELECT 2

To create a selection set using Quick Select
In the following example, you use Quick Select to select the red objects in a drawing.
1. Click Tools menu Quick Select....At the Command prompt, enter qselect.
2. In the Quick Select dialog box, under Apply To, select Entire Drawing.
3. Under Object Type, select Multiple.
4. Under Properties, select Color.
5. Under Operator, select Equals.
6. Under Value, select Red.
7. Under How to Apply, select Include in New Selection Set.
8. Click OK.
All red objects in the drawing are selected and the Quick Select dialog box closes. Objects that are set to BYLAYER and are red because the layer color is red are not included in the selection set.

Note – If an application such as Autodesk Map was used to add a feature classification to an object, and the associated classification (XML) file is present, you can select objects by classification property. Specifically, you can select a classification in the Object Type box and a property in the Properties box.

To exclude objects from the selection set
You can exclude objects from the current selection set by using the Exclude from New Selection Set option. In the following example, you exclude all circles with a radius greater than 1 from a set of objects already selected.
1. Select several objects.
2. Click Tools menu Quick Select....At the Command prompt, enter qselect.
3. In the Quick Select dialog box, under Apply To, select Current Selection.
4. Under Object Type, select Circle.
5. Under Properties, select Radius.
6. Under Operator, select Greater Than.
7. Under Value, enter 1.
8. Under How to Apply, select Exclude from New Selection Set.
9. Click OK.
All circles with a radius greater than 1 are removed from the selection set.

To append objects to the selection set
You can use Quick Select to append objects to a current selection set. In the following example, you keep the current selection set and append all objects in the drawing that contain hyperlinks whose names begin with bld1_.

1. Click Tools menu Quick Select....At the Command prompt, enter qselect.
2. In the Quick Select dialog box, select Append to Current Selection Set.
3. In the Object Type box, select Multiple.
4. Under Properties, select Hyperlink.
5. Under Operator, select Wildcard Match.
6. Under Value, enter bld1_*.
7. Under How to Apply, select Include in New Selection Set.
8. Click OK.

Tomorrow we will explore the options of ‘Filter’ command. Stay tuned…!