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Chapter 20 Selecting & Deleting Entities
To add a qualifier that selects entities based on a graphic property
1 On the Edit menu, click Select, Modify Selection, or click the Modify
Selection button on the All-In-One toolbar.
2 On the Selection Modifier menu bar, click Qualifier, Type, Layer, Color,
Width, or Style. A corresponding selection dialog box appears.
3 Select the values you want to allow for the property. To select multiple
values, press SHIFT or CTRL as you click.
4 Click OK. The qualifier is added to the selection statement.
To add a qualifier that selects entities based on the marquee
1 On the Edit menu, click Select, Modify Selection, or click the Modify
Selection button on the All-In-One toolbar.
2 On the Qualifier menu of the Selection Modifier menu bar, click Marquee.
A cascading menu appears. A marquee must already exist in the drawing,
otherwise these commands appear grayed.
3 Click Totally Inside to include entities that are totally inside the marquee,
or click the corresponding menu command to include entities that are
partially inside, totally outside, or partially outside the marquee.
To add a qualifier that selects entities based on a database field
1 On the Edit menu, click Select, Modify Selection, or click the Modify
Selection button on the All-In-One toolbar.
2 On the Selection Modifier menu bar, click Qualifier, Database. The Select
By Field dialog box appears.
3 Select the field you want to use to include entities in the selection state-
ment from the Field Name section of the dialog box.
4 Select one of the following qualifiers in the Is section of the dialog box:
Qualifiers for selecting entities based on a database field
Qualifier Result
= Includes entities if field value matches Value.
!= Includes entities if field value does not match Value.
< Includes entities if field value is less than Value.
<= Includes entities if field value is less than or equal to Value.