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Selecting objects

Selecting objects

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Selecting objects

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This video is all about selection. Before you can modify objects, you need to select them. And it doesn't really matter how you want to modify them. You might want to move them, copy, rotate, scale, what have you, but all those commands start with a select objects prompt. Open the architectural sample file, and let's go ahead and click move ,up here. It says select objects. The most obvious way to select something is just to click on it. It's called picking. This works well, but it's very inefficient. Let's say I wanted to select all of the objects comprising this stair. I don't want to sit here and click on each and every line. Fortunately, there's a better way to do that. You can create a window around the stair. Click right about here. And then move the cursor down to the right. If I click right here, watch what happens. All that gets selected. I'm just going to press Escape to cancel the command. Let's try that again. Go back to move and this time instead of starting up here…

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