Selecting & Deleting Entities. Autodesk AUTOSKETCH 8

Selecting &

Deleting Entities

In general, only entities that are selected can be acted upon. To delete an entity, for example, you must select it, then click Delete on the Edit menu. This chapter describes all of the techniques for selecting entities in

AutoSketch.

When you select an entity, it becomes part of the current selection set. This group consists of highlighted entities surrounded by handles. You can add entities to the selection set and remove them anytime you like.

With each change, the handles are adjusted to reflect the extent of the current selection set. The selection set can contain any number of entities from a single entity to all entities in the drawing. Any action you perform on the selection set affects all selected entities.

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In this chapter

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Selecting entities with the mouse

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Selecting all entities in a drawing

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Using the Selection

Modifier

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Aligning the selection handles

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Clearing a selection set

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Marquee selection

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Modifying the properties for the entire selection set

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Deleting entities

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