Selection Sets

[beamer]

I am new to Autocad coming from another cad program. Can someone tell me how
to make a selection by layer by color or by layer by text by color?

Thanks Beamer

[lpseifert]

Investigate Qselect, Filter, SSX, and/or Getsel

[jaberwok]

Quick select.
Select some objects. In the Properties palette (if necessary, right-click and select "properties"), look at the top line; pick the button on the right with an image that looks like a funnel.

[davids110217]

Does anyone know if a quick select cmmand exists that works as follows:

1st select the item you want
2nd
select all that match current item properties except, for example, the content of a text box.
or
3rd
is there an after market command I can add or write to do same?

I'm using 2008 LT

[ccowgill]

Does anyone know if a quick select cmmand exists that works as follows:

1st select the item you want
2nd
select all that match current item properties except, for example, the content of a text box.
or
3rd
is there an after market command I can add or write to do same?

I'm using 2008 LT

I have never used select similar, a routine that I downloaded, but it sounds like it might be what you are looking for. the problem is, from what I understand, you can load custom lisp files in LT unless you have 3rd party software.

[robert.1.hall72202]

Quick select seemingly does the trick if I understand the OP.

[Comach]

I am new to Autocad coming from another cad program. Can someone tell me how
to make a selection by layer by color or by layer by text by color?

Thanks Beamer

Llpseifert mentioned the Filter command - which is a very powerful way of creating a selection filter.

For example to find all lines coloured blue using Filter:

You would first select LINE to the filter and then select COLOUR - close the filter dialog and when prompted with "select objects" type ALL - every element corresponding to the filter criteria will be highlighted.

There are all sorts of criteria and by building a filter combined with AND, OR, NOT options you can devise some very complex selections.

[irneb]

Filter is more powerful than QSelect for extremely complex selection set filtering. It's more difficult to use / understand though since its interface is very much programmer oriented. For simple selections Filter / QSelect (IMHO) is much of a muchness - it's up to you what you prefer / understand better.

However its major drawback is it doesn't handle dynamic blocks well - QSelect does. As per the OP this can be accomplished easily via either method, except for the TEXT portion (QSelect is not the way to go here).

If you use QSelect Text-->Contents-->Wildcard Match then you either select MText entities or Single line Text entities (not both at once). And the WildCard string is case sensitive so test" will not match Testing. Filter on the other hand uses Text Value with automatic wild-card matching and is case insensitive - i.e. it will find all TEXT and/or MTEXT entities starting with Test, test, TeSt, etc. from the previous example.

So it's a toss-up which you use. In some cases the one works better than the other, and in other cases it's visa-versa.