Zyan Rey E.

De Asis
BS-CE 2C
ASG05
Selection Methods in AutoCAD
1.) Rectangular/Window Selection
- Draw a window from left to right by left clicking once and moving the cursor across the
object. All objects inside the window frame will be selected. To specify a rectangular
selection area, click and release the mouse button, move the cursor, and click again.

- We can also select objects individually by simply hovering the pickbox cursor over an
object and then clicking it.

2.) Lasso Selection

- This is done by holding left click and dragging the cursor across the object or only part
of it. To create a lasso selection, click, drag, and release the mouse button. This blue
selection is called a window lasso.

- If we drag from right to left, this triggers the crossing lasso. It selects everything that is
crossed by the green selection.
- There is also the fence lasso. It allows you to specify points to define a fence that
passes through doors. This is most useful in floor plans.

Selecting Objects That Are Close Together

If selection preview is turned on, you can cycle through the objects by rolling over the
object on top to highlight it and pressing and holding Shift and then pressing Spacebar
continuously. When the required object is highlighted, left click to select it.

If selection preview is turned off, hold down Shift+Spacebar and click to cycle through
these objects, one after the other, until the one you want is selected. Press Esc to turn off
cycling.

- To remove selection from objects, simply hold shift and select them again.

Limiting Selected Objects

1.) SELECTSIMILAR
- Finds all objects that match the properties of selected objects, and then adds them
to a new selection set.
2.) QSELECT
- This mode of selection has other options that aren’t available with
SELECTSIMILAR. This creates a selection set by filtering on object type and
property.
• It can allow you to pre-select objects to apply the filter to, rather than
applying it to the entire drawing.
• It allows you to apply an operator to the property value you want to filter
on, such as <> Equal (Not Equal) to a specified layer name.
• It gives you the option to either include or exclude objects from your
selection set.

Selecting all objects in your drawing at once

- To do this, you can simply use the Ctrl+A key combination or the command shown
below: