The Quick and the Selected

this week's [tip of the week] is brought to you by:

the Delorean DMC-12

Standard Features:

Stainless steel body panels
Counter-balanced gull-wing doors
Leather seats and trim
Air conditioning
Multi-speaker, high output stereo system with cassette
Power windows
Tilt and telescopic steering wheel
Dual electric remote side mirrors
Full instrumentation
Central door locking system
Tinted glass
Body side moldings
Intermittent windshield wipers
Sylvania halogen headlamps
Engine/luggage compartment lights
Interior hood and engine compartment release
Electric rear window defogger

It was also featured in possibly the best movie ever, “BACK TO THE FUTURE” parts 1,2, and 3.

this weeks tip is:

the [quick select] command.

I’d like to send a quick “shout out” to jon over at “sp” for suggesting this tip.

If you’re like me, and jon, every once in a while, you need to select a whole lot of one thing. Whether it’s doors, furniture, walls, line types or blocks. This can be made simple using the “quick select” command.

Let’s say for some reason you need to select all the doors in a particular project that has a lot of doors.

“You'll have to forgive the crudeness of this model, I didn't have time to paint it or build it to scale”

Now type [QS], and this box will appear

Now, you can either select the entire drawing or click on the little box with the arrow and “x” to select only a portion. In this case I wanted to select only a portion. After clicking the box and selecting the area on my screen. I hit “enter” and then use the “quick select box” to narrow down, what I want selected.

In this case, I just wanted doors, but there are many, many options to select exactly what you want. After clicking ok, all the doors are selected.