There are several methods
for choosing a group, including selecting the group by name or selecting
one of the members of the group.
You
can select groups by name at the Select Objects prompt. If the PICKSTYLE system variable
is set to 1 or 3 and you select any member of a selectable group,
all group members that meet the selection criteria are selected. You
can also turn group selection on and off by pressing Ctrl+ H or Shift+Ctrl+A.
All
members of selectable groups are also selected when you use object
selection cycling (for example, if you want to select an object
that lies directly behind another object). Selecting an object that
is a member of more than one selectable group selects all the members
of all the groups that contain that object. To select groups for
editing with grips, use the pointing device to select the group
at the Command prompt.
To control whether all
grouped objects can be selected individuallyDo
one of the following:
- At the Command prompt, enter pickstyle.
Enter 1 to turn on group selection. Objects within groups can be
selected as a group only, not individually.
- At the Command prompt,
enter pickstyle. Enter 0 to turn off
group selection. Objects within groups can be selected individually
only, not as a group.
- At any time, turn group
selection on and off by pressing either Ctrl+H or Ctrl+Shift+A.
To control selectability
for a specific group
- At the Command prompt, enter group.
- In the Object Grouping
dialog box, under Group Name, click the group for which you want
to change selectability.
- Under Change Group,
click Selectable.
This changes whether
objects within the group are either selectable as a group, subject
to the PICKSTYLE system variable. If selectability is turned off,
the objects in a group are selectable only as individual objects.
At the top of the Object Grouping dialog box, under Selectable,
each group displays its current status.
- Click OK.
To turn group selection
on and off for all groups
CommandsGROUP
Creates and manages
saved sets of objects called groups.
System VariablesPICKSTYLE
Controls the use of
group selection and associative hatch selection.
