QSELECT — Quick Select

Selects objects by type and by the value of a property.

• Command: QSELECT · Global name: _QSELECT
• Ribbon: Home › Utilities
• Menu: Tools

Selects the objects that meet a condition on their type and the value of a property: all lines on a layer, circles with a radius greater than 5, texts of a certain height… The selection can then be edited with any command or with the Properties palette.

Usage

1. Enter QSELECT or click its button. The Quick Select dialog box opens.
2. Fill in the condition:

• Apply to: Entire drawing or, if objects were selected, Current selection.
• Object type: Multiple (all types) or one of the types present, with its number of objects.
• Properties: the general ones (layer, color, linetype…) and, once a type is chosen, its own (length, radius, height…): the same as in the Properties palette.
• Operator: = Equals, <> Not Equal, > Greater than, < Less than, * Wildcard Match or Select All.
• Value: the value to compare with. For the layer it is chosen from a list.

3. Under How to apply: choose Include in new selection set or Exclude from new selection set, and check Append to current selection set to add the result to what was already selected.
4. Click OK. The objects are selected.

Notes

• Numbers are compared as numbers, in the drawing units; texts, ignoring case. With the wildcard operator, * (any text) and ? (one character) can be used.
• The objects of the current space (model or the open layout) are searched.

See also

SELECTSIMILAR · AI_SELALL · PROPERTIES · Selecting objects