From the course: AutoCAD: Working with Utilities and Properties

Using Selection Cycling effectively in a drawing - AutoCAD Tutorial

From the course: AutoCAD: Working with Utilities and Properties

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Using Selection Cycling effectively in a drawing

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- [Instructor] We're staying in on Zero Zero Ground 1031 South East Madison.dwg file. And like I said, in the previous video I needed you to zoom in on this particular conference table in the middle of the drawing. Now the reason I've got you to zoom in is there some rectangular polylines on this table that shouldn't be there. They've kind of been traced over the block that forms the table. Now, the way that you can check that is to use your selection cycling. So like I said in the previous video, selection cycling down here is switched on. Now the benefit you have, is when you now hover over objects that are on top of each other and occupy the same coordinates and geometry, selection cycling will kick in now and let you know that they are there. So if I hover here like this, can you see, I've now got a funny little box appearing, two little sort of squares on top of each other. If I click there now, you'll notice that quick properties kicks in where I've selected one of the polylines, but also you'll notice that selection cycling is now available. And you see that there's three objects in place. And as I hover over each one, can you see how the quick properties kicks in? That's because my quick properties is also switched on on the status bar. I deliberately left it on for you to see how beneficial this is because the selection cycling is on, the quick properties are on and it's telling me, there's my block reference. There's my polyline on conference table layer one. And there's my polyline on conference table layer two. So the trick is now is to select which polyline I want in the selection cycling box. So I'm going to select this one here, the red colored one which is on layout conference table two, comp table two. So I select it and it's now selected. I don't want it anymore. So I hit the Delete key and it's gone and you can see the one below it, now has a different color. It's blue. So again, if I hover again now, you'll notice I get the little selection cycling icon next to the crosshair and it's telling me now can you see conference table one is the layer. So if I select that rectangular polyline, again the quick properties kicks in, there's the block reference. There's the polyline. So I select the polyline in the selection box and again I hit Delete on the keyboard and that's now gone as well. So I've now only got the one object left. How do I know there's only one left? Because when I hold her over right now, I don't get that little selection cycling icon next to the crosshair. When I select now, the selection cycling dialog box doesn't appear but the block reference appears in the quick properties palette. So now we know there's only one object there and I've removed the two rectangular polylines that were traced on top of that conference table block. So see how useful selection cycling can be when you're tidying up existing drawings that might have come from a third party or perhaps there's extra geometry in the drawing that you don't specifically need when you're working with your AutoCAD drawings.

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