Spatial Manager™ for AutoCAD - FAQs: Advanced Selection ("Standard" and "Professional" editions only)
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Introduction
- Objective of this section
- To learn how to select AutoCAD objects in a Data and/or Geometric relationship basis
- Topics in this section
- Select objects based on spatial queries
- Select objects based on data queries
- Select objects which are attached to a specific table
- Zoom to the selection
- NOTE for Objects Data: You can learn more about Tables and attached Data in the Data Structure Management chapter
- NOTE about the performance of the selections: The selection of objects in AutoCAD may be a few slower when the "SpatialManager" palette is open, depending on the data of the objects
Can I define a selection of objects based on their geometric relationship?
The command 'SPMSPATIALQUERY' in 'Spatial Manager™ for AutoCAD' allows you select objects in the drawing according to the result of an advanced spatial query
Transform drawing Coordinate System functionality (Original and transformed drawings overlapped in order to show the transformation)
- The query can be applied to one data table or to all the data tables defined in the drawing
- Click on the "+" button to add at least one condition and so create a data query (a condition that stands for "Property & Comparator & Value")
- When you are defining a compound query, you can add as many conditions as you want to the conditions list . Click on the "+" button each time you need to add a condition
- You can select the logical operators "And" or "Or" when adding new conditions. "And" will be the default operator
- In addition, if there is any object selected when you run the command, you can:
- Apply the query to the current selection, and not to the entire drawing, or,
- Keep the current selection so the new "query selection" will be added to the current selection
- Notes:
- You can choose and search (...) among the available values for a Field
- The command keeps the list of query conditions used the last time it was executed
- If there are no results during a query, the command window is shown again and keeps the list of query conditions
- You can use the "-" button every time you need to remove a condition from the conditions list in the query, or you can use the Clean button (the "broom") to remove all query conditions from the list
Note: You can use the command 'SPMZOOMTOSELECTION' (see below) to quickly zoom to the selection extent
Can I define a selection of objects based on the values of their data?
The command 'SPMSELECTBYQUERY' in 'Spatial Manager™ for AutoCAD' allows you select objects in the drawing according to the result of a simplex or compound data query
- The query can be applied to one data table or to all the data tables defined in the drawing
- Click on the "+" button to add at least one condition and so create a data query (a condition that stands for "Property & Comparator & Value")
- When you are defining a compound query, you can add as many conditions as you want to the conditions list . Click on the "+" button each time you need to add a condition
- You can select the logical operators "And" or "Or" when adding new conditions. "And" will be the default operator
- In addition, if there is any object selected when you run the command, you can:
- Apply the query to the current selection, and not to the entire drawing, or,
- Keep the current selection so the new "query selection" will be added to the current selection
- Notes:
- You can choose and search (...) among the available values for a Field
- The command keeps the list of query conditions used the last time it was executed
- If there are no results during a query, the command window is shown again and keeps the list of query conditions
- You can use the "-" button every time you need to remove a condition from the conditions list in the query, or you can use the Clean button (the "broom") to remove all query conditions from the list
Note: You can use the command 'SPMZOOMTOSELECTION' (see below) to quickly zoom to the selection extent
Can I select all the objects attached to the same data table?
Yes, you can select all the objects which have been previously attached to a specific data table. To do that, execute the command 'SPMSELECTBYTABLE' of Spatial Manager™ for AutoCAD. You will find this command in the "Spatial Manager" AutoCAD ribbon
To choose the one you want, click on the data tables drop-down list
Note: You can use the command 'SPMZOOMTOSELECTION' (see below) to quickly zoom to the selection extent
Is there any way to locate on the screen all the selected objects?
Yes, the 'Spatial Manager™ for AutoCAD' 'SPMZOOMTOSELECTION' command, zooms to the current selection extent so you can locate all the selected objects in an optimal size view
Note: This functionality can be very handy as a complement to the previous selection commands, but also if it is used with other AutoCAD selection functions
Related links
- Select by query in AutoCAD
- Retrieve existing data values when querying
- Analysis of parcels crossed by a road
- Combine Quick select and Select by Query