Workaround Tip - Select entities by type

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Clive
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Workaround Tip - Select entities by type

Post by Clive » Sat Jul 28, 2012 2:35 pm

Sometimes it is useful to select entities by type rather than by location or layer - the following is based on Andrews 'workaround' and a feature request has been added for this option to be added to the 'Selection Tools' tool set:
http://www.ribbonsoft.com/bugtracker/in ... ask_id=630
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Re: Workaround Tip - Select entities by type

Post by J-J » Sat Jul 28, 2012 6:38 pm

Hello Clive,
Smart idea, I tried it, quite useful indeed.

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