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When using the marquee-select method, both
CAD and architectural objects included in To make marquee selection easier, you
the marquee are selected. To remove an can turn off the display of objects you
object from the selection set, hold down the do not want to include in your selection set.
Shift key and click it. See “Layers” on page 184.
The Ctrl key will always marquee-select Shift and Ctrl Select
objects of all types, regardless of the active
tool. The Shift key, however, can be used to You can select a group of objects by adding
marquee-select objects of a similar type. them to the selection set one by one. Select
an object, hold down either the Shift or Ctrl
To marquee-select objects by type key, and click additional objects to select
them.
1. Select a drawing tool used to create the More than one type of object can be selected
type of object you wish to select: for
using this method, but the ability to edit the
example, the Hinged Door t o o l . group-selected items is limited to attributes
2. Hold down the Shift key, then click and that all selected objects have in common.
drag a rectangular selection marquee in To remove an object from a selection set,
the drawing area. click it once more - again, with either the
3. When you release the mouse button, Shift or Ctrl key pressed.
objects of the selected drawing tool’s The Shift and Ctrl keys can be used to select
type - here, door objects - located in the multiple items in a variety of contexts, such
marquee will be selected.
as: the Library and Project Browsers, lists in
If an object is currently selected and a dialog boxes, and files to be imported.
selection marquee is drawn around it, that
object becomes de-selected. If an object is Select All
currently selected and a marquee is drawn
around other objects, the original object Select Edit> Select All to select all objects
remains selected and the other objects are drawn on the current floor, in the current
added to the selection set. cross section/elevation view or CAD Detail
window, or on the current layout page.
You can specify whether objects must be
totally contained in or intersected by the Edit Area Tools
marquee, or whether an object’s center point
must be contained in the marquee, in the The Edit Area Tools allow you to
Preferences dialog or using the Selection define an area of your plan and select
the objects within that area for editing. See
Mode buttons, which can be added to “Edit Area Tools” on page 271.
your toolbars. See “Edit Panel” on page 123.

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