If you don’t want this type of chain selection then type FSMODE press enter and type OFF and press enter again. You will notice that all the objects which are connected to each other will be selected. Now type FS and press enter and then click on any one of the objects of drawing. Type FSMODE and press enter, then type ON and press enter again. An example of this type of selection is shown in the gif image below. Using FSMODE system variable you can implement chain type selection of objects in the drawing area. In case of lasso selection, you can press enter or spacebar key while in the middle of selection to cycle through Window, Crossing and Fence type of lasso selection. In the image below I have used crossing lasso to make a selection of objects of magenta colour. If you move your cursor towards left crossing lasso will be made.
If you move your cursor towards the right side, window Lasso will be made.
AUTOCAD MECHANICAL 2013 SHEET SET WIZARD FREE
You will notice that a free hand selection will be made. In this case, you can make a selection set simply by moving your cursor freely in the drawing area.Ĭlick and hold at a point don’t release your mouse key then draw your cursor in the drawing area. This type of selection can also be called as the free hand selection set, it is relatively new and it was introduced in the 2015 version of AutoCAD. In this example, I have made a fence to make the selection of all yellow rectangles in the drawing. Your fence will start from the point of click, now move this fence to touch other objects in the drawing to make the selection. To use this selection option click anywhere in the drawing area then type F on the command line and press Enter. Using this selection option you can create a fence in such a way that all objects touching that fence will be included in the selection set. You can use crossing polygon as well for the similar type of selections. In this example, I have made a window polygon to select all red circles from the drawing. To make a window or crossing polygon click at any point in the drawing area and then type WP or CP for window polygon and crossing polygon respectively and press enter. If you make a crossing polygon then all the objects within the polygon as well as objects touching the boundary of the polygon will be selected. In this case too if you make a window polygon then all objects completely inside the polygon will be selected. In this case instead of rectangular selection boxes you can make a polygonal selection box. This one is another type of window and crossing selection. To make this crossing window click at a point in drawing area and move your cursor towards left.Īll the objects within this dashed window, as well as objects touching the boundary of the window, will be included in the selection set as shown in the image below. This one is like normal window selection but in this case, any object which even touches the boundary of the window will be selected. Objects crossing the boundary will not be selected in this case, only objects completely inside the selection window will be selected.
To make a window selection click at any point in the drawing area and drag the cursor towards right side to include the objects in the selection window.Īll the objects which are completely inside this solid window will be selected, as shown in the image below. This is the normal and most obvious way of making a selection in AutoCAD. I have used a sample drawing with circle and rectangles of the different colour and dimensions to explain this article.
In this article, I will explain methods of making these selection sets using different tools and I will explain ways of saving these selection sets so that they can be used later. But there are also many other ways of making a specific type of selections using different tools like Quick Select, Filter and other selection sets.
AUTOCAD MECHANICAL 2013 SHEET SET WIZARD MANUAL
There are many ways of making a selection in AutoCAD like a simple window or manual selection by clicking on objects.