Selecting

The first step in copying objects from or to other drawings is building a selection set. The fastest methods for selecting objects are

Window Inside

and

Window Overlap

When no command is active, a selection window is drawn when you hold down the left mouse button and move the mouse. If you move the mouse to the left, the selection window turns green and dotted. All objects that fall completely or partly inside the window are selected. If you move the mouse to the right, the selection window turns blue and is drawn with a solid line. Only objects that fall completely inside the window are selected. Along with the window border (green or blue), an icon next to the cursor shows the selection method in use: Window Overlap or Window Inside.

You can also select an object by clicking it with the mouse. If the Shift key is held down while you click an object or use a selection window method, unselected objects are added to the selection set and objects that are already selected are removed from it.

Select Similar

Selects all entities with the same properties as the currently selected entity.

Enter the SEttings option to open this dialog:

Option	Description
Color	Color number or name
Layer	Layer name
Linetype	Linetype name
Linetype Scale	Linetype scale factor
Lineweight	Lineweight value
Plotstyle	Plot style name
Object style	Name of the applicable style, such as a text, dimension or table style name
Name	Entity type, such as line, arc or polyline

Selection filter

Sometimes it is useful to use a window selection that doesn’t select all objects, but only objects of a certain kind or with a certain block name. Use the command SF for this, or click it in the ribbon:

The command responds in the command bar with these options:

Choose the capital letter of the option and press Enter, or press Enter right away if the right option is already suggested.

Option	Description
Block	Click a block, then SCAD Re-Event asks again: Select entities. Use the Window Inside or Window Overlap (blue or green) window as explained at the top of this page. Only blocks with the specified name are selected.
Color	Only objects with the same color are selected. Keep in mind that an entity can have a color that is determined by the layer (color: bylayer).
Entity	All entities of the same kind are selected, such as lines, hatches, etc.
Layer	All entities on the same layer are selected.
Linetype	All entities with the same linetype are selected.
Previous	The previous choice is used.

Selecting duplicate blocks

The command SHOWDUPBLK selects all blocks that are in the same place.

After selecting, you can, for example, delete the blocks with DELETE. One block always remains. The command doesn’t search inside a block, so it only works on blocks that can be selected individually in the drawing.