Select object in AutoCAD

Select object in AutoCAD

There are many methods to select object in AutoCAD drawing. Normally, we use those methods unintentionally without understanding exactly what they are and sometimes, even with people who uses AutoCAD for a long time but still don’t know all methods to select objects provided by AutoCAD.
In this tutorial, I will guide you some tips to select object in AutoCAD

• Pickbox

Use mouse-click method to choose object depend on selected cell, we can only select one object per time.

• Auto

When we activate a command which displays this text “select objects”, we have to choose 2 points to allocate window frame.
If the first point is on the left and the second point is on the right, only objects on window frame is selected.

If the first point is on the right and the second point is on the left, objects that is on and interfere with window frame is selected.

• Window

When we active a command which displays this text “Select objects”, we type “W”
Choose “W1” and “W2” to determine window frame, objects on window frame will be selected.

• Crossing window

When we active a command which displays this text “Select objects”, we type “C”.
Choose “W1” and “W2” to determine window frame, objects that is on and interfere with window frame will be selected.

Author: Ruby

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