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Creating Groups
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Creating Groups
A group is a collection of entities that AutoSketch treats as a single entity.
Groups are useful for organizing the entities in your drawing into collections,
or groups, that can be selected at once. For instance, in an office layout draw-
ing, you could group all of the symbols and entities in each office into a
single group then select, move, rotate, or copy them as one entity.
Groups have many of the same features of symbols:
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Entities within the group can still be individually selected as references for
snaps or drawing operations such as Duplicate Offset or Perpendicular
Polyline.
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Transform operations such as Move, Scale, or Align, affect all members in
a group.
Unlike a symbol, a group is not named or saved in libraries, and you cannot
use the Dropper tool or perform Trim or Database operations on groups. Also
unlike a symbol, changing pen color (or other graphic properties) on the
property bar permanently affects all members in a group.
You can ungroup groups by using the Explode command. Entities from
exploded groups retain the graphic properties they were assigned while
grouped. Otherwise, they retain their original properties.
To create a group
1 Select the entities you want to group.
2 Right-click, then click Group on the pop-up menu that appears, or click
the Group button on the edit bar.