My Inventor training continues...so many very, very cool features...I'm in a cute town called Tualatin in the state of Oregon. I went to high school for awhile in a very small town (population <2,000 people) not far from here so it's been a bit of a trip down memory lane for me this week. It's so beautiful and green here, and the people are so friendly. Ahhhhhhhhhh...On to the techie stuff.
A Hip Tip for Speedy Smart Selection Sets:
The Express Tool GETSEL makes it super easy to grab objects based on their object type and/or layer. For example, you notice that all the text in a drawing was placed on the Walls layer, and you wanted to put it on the Text layer. GETSEL can really help you out.
Command: GETSEL
Select an object on the Source layer <*>: Use a selection set method or press ENTER for all layers
Select an object of the Type you want <*>: Use a selection set method or press ENTER for all object types
So you would select an object on the Walls layer first, and select one of the text strings (or MTEXT - whichever the case may be). AutoCAD would find all the text on the Walls layer for you. Then you use the layer drop-down on the Styles toolbar to quickly change it to the Text layer.
If you grab a bunch of objects using GETSEL and intend to do something with them (like move, rotate, copy, etc) - simply enter the desired editing command and use the option of "P" for previous to use your handy selection set.
This is similar to the QSELECT option in the Properties dialog...just another route that's a little speedier (depending on what your goal is).
So there's your Hip Tip!
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