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Using off-screen selection

Using off-screen selection - AutoCAD Tutorial

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Using off-screen selection

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- [Narrator] We're now in another new chapter of our course, and what we're going to look at now is off-screen selection in AutoCAD. In older versions of AutoCAD, if you selected a group of objects, and then zoomed or panned and they went off the screen window, you would find that they would become de-selected and not be part of your selection set anymore. So we've got a new drawing open, it's called "Offscreenselection.dwg", you can see the name of it there at the top of the screen, and what we're going to do, is we're going to use that drawing to follow along in the video, so make sure you've downloaded it from the website, so that you can follow along with the video, and understand the concepts of this off-screen selection in AutoCAD. So if I just zoom out slightly first, you can see that we've got six incidences of the same three objects, we have a hexagon, a rectangle, and a circle. Now, what I'm going to do, is I'm going to select a group of two sets of objects, so I'm going to…

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