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Performing property queries - AutoCAD Tutorial
From the course: AutoCAD Map 3D 2021 Essential Training
Performing property queries
- Often, when querying attached drawings, you only want the objects that have a particular AutoCAD property, such as Layer or Color. The Property Query is perfect for this situation. For example, you may want to query the drawings for a layer called Roads even though that layer spans multiple drawings. Let's try using Property Queries. First, we'll Attach the drawings. Click Attach, go into the exercise files' alias, chapter three, lesson three, we'll pick on Buildings, Hydrology, and Streets. Click Add. We'll do a Quick View. Click OK, and there's the data again. But we only want to filter out particular layers. So let's double-click on Current Query. We have choices again. Under Query Type, Location, Property, Data, or SQL. This case we're going to use Property. These are AutoCAD properties that are inside each of these source drawings. We have all sorts of things from Block Name to Area, to Linetype and Plot…
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