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In this lesson, we're going to look at a more advanced way of selecting.

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We looked at selecting very early on.

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It's one of the basic skills which just basically clicking.

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But there are other ways of selecting multiple objects.

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I left it later on in the course because you do need to know about things like layers and colors to

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appreciate how to use this.

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But once you once you do know that this selection tool is quite powerful, really, So there should

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be a drawing in your resources folder under the basic modules called selection.

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Okay.

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And if you open that up, you'll see we have these circles and squares, just random sizes, but they

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are different colors and they are under the layers.

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So we have layers, blue circles, blue squares, etcetera, etcetera.

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Okay.

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And you could use this to practice your layer control and turning layers on and off, putting things

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on, correct layers, that kind of thing.

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But in this lesson we're going to look at the quick select tools.

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So let's suppose we wanted to select all the red circles and nothing else.

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Well, we could go around, we could clip the red circles individually, but supposing there was lots

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and lots of them, one of the easiest ways is to click the red circle.

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Just one of them.

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Any one.

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And then if we right click, you'll see we have this option select similar.

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If you select that, you'll now see all red circles are selected.

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So what AutoCAD is doing, it's saying we basically telling AutoCAD, go and select anything else that's

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similar to this object.

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Okay, so let's try that on the green squares.

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Select similar, the green squares.

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So it's a great command.

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And it can come in handy, but it does have its limitations.

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The whole concept of selecting similar, it needs to be based on a certain property so colors, layers,

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that kind of thing.

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And if I was to take this, I'm going to take this circle here and I'm going to put it on the green

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squares layer.

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Okay?

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And I'm going to select this red circle and go to select similar.

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You'll see now it hasn't selected that.

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So AutoCAD isn't selecting all the red circles.

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What it's actually doing, it's got some kind of priority built in.

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It's looking for things on layers.

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Layers is a main priority.

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It'll look for objects on the same layer.

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And if it's not on the same layer, it won't select it.

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Okay, so select some.

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It's one of those commands.

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You try it and you hope that it does what you want, but if it doesn't, you need to do something else.

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So it's always worth trying.

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Select similar.

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And if you've got if you just wanted to select all the text or something like that or all the internal

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walls on the internal walls layer, something like it will work for you.

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But if you've got a bit more complex of a drawing, then it might not.

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So it's worth trying.

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And when it works, it is a great command, believe me.

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But what do we do if we want to refine it further?

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Okay, well, let's.

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I'm going to bring up our properties panel.

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And we have here.

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Quick, select this button here.

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Okay, I'm going to click that and you'll see now we this is it brings up some options and here we can

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specify what we want to select in terms of a multiple selection.

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Okay, so the first option is apply to entire drawing.

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That's basically means, as it says, everything in the drawing.

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Okay.

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Object type.

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Multiple.

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I'm just going to keep it on multiple.

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And now what do we want?

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So we want if we want to select all the red objects, for instance, we can say, okay, I want to select

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throughout the entire drawing.

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I want multiple objects wherever that have a color.

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Of red.

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Okay.

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And how to apply, including a new selection set.

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So we want a new selection set.

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And I'm going to say, okay, now nothing's happened.

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And that's because our array, we we need to differentiate between the different colors.

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So under your colors we have.

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Red, which is this one.

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But then we also have these reds.

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Okay.

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And what you'll find is these are actually under this red 205 2239.

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Okay.

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So let's try that again.

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And let's say this time entire drawing multiple objects where the color equals to zero five 3239 including

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a new selection set.

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Okay.

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And now it's selected all those red objects.

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But maybe we wanted to do so multiple objects where the layer is equal to green squares, including

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a new set.

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Okay.

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Now it selects everything on the green squares layer.

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You can see it's selected this that is actually on the green squares layer rather than red circles.

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So it selected it.

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So you can use this to create a new selection.

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Sometimes you've already selected everything.

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So let's say we've got all those selected.

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We can go to quick Select and this time, instead of entire drawing, we get this option here.

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Current selection.

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So.

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Maybe you only want to work on this first half here so you can select those objects.

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We don't want to deal with anything here, no matter what it is.

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We just want this.

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We go to quick select and we can, instead of entire drawing which will select these as well, we just

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go current selection.

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So it's only going to deal with these collection of objects here.

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This would be useful if you were just looking at objects in one room, for instance, instead of a whole

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layout.

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And now we want objects whose color equals.

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That's the green we used include a new selection set.

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Okay, so now it's selected these objects which are on the green.

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So you can use that quick select on a selection.

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You can also say, okay, I want to select the whole thing.

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So current selection.

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Multiple objects.

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I don't want any.

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I don't want anything on the blue squares layer.

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So you can say layer equals blue squares.

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And instead of including new selection set, I want to exclude that from the selection set.

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Okay, so now it's deselected those blue squares so you can see you have all these different options.

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You can select things by layer, by color, by line type.

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So maybe you had lots of squares that were dashed and you didn't want to select them.

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You can do it by line type scale plots by line weight, all these.

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Okay.

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You can either even have things like these functions.

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So.

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So in the current selection, I want the color.

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Is not equal to red, including new selection set.

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So now we're going to select everything that is in red.

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Okay, So that's quite powerful.

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Again, in a small drawing, in the kind of small objects we have here.

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It seems like it might be easier to just click them individually, but when you've got a big plan,

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trust me, this this stuff, this is a great way of selecting things.

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And.

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You can add it to the selection set.

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You can include it.

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Okay, you can have.

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So it's just a quick way of selecting objects.

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And I wanted to leave it until later on before I told you about it because you needed to know what layers

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were, what about colors and line types and things to appreciate how you can differentiate.

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But that's the quick select tool.

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I don't I use it when it's another tool that I don't use all the time, but every now and then it's

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a massive time saver, so it's good to know about it and then select similar.

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I always try that if I if I if I need multiple objects, I always give it a go because it's just a right

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click and a click.

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So it's so simple.

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And when it does work, yeah, it's great.

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So that's the advanced selection tools.