From the course: AutoCAD 2015 Essential Training
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Selecting objects
This video is all about selection. Before you can modify objects, you need to select them. And it doesn't really matter how you want to modify them. You might want to move them, copy, rotate, scale, what have you, but all those commands start with a select objects prompt. Open the architectural sample file, and let's go ahead and click move ,up here. It says select objects. The most obvious way to select something is just to click on it. It's called picking. This works well, but it's very inefficient. Let's say I wanted to select all of the objects comprising this stair. I don't want to sit here and click on each and every line. Fortunately, there's a better way to do that. You can create a window around the stair. Click right about here. And then move the cursor down to the right. If I click right here, watch what happens. All that gets selected. I'm just going to press Escape to cancel the command. Let's try that again. Go back to move and this time instead of starting up here…
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Selecting objects10m 12s
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Moving and copying8m 22s
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Rotating and scaling8m 11s
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Arraying objects8m 46s
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Offsetting and mirroring6m 48s
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Stretching and lengthening2m 40s
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Trimming and extending4m 38s
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Breaking and joining5m 10s
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Editing with grips4m 21s
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Creating boundaries and cleaning up4m 42s
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Performing Boolean operations on regions3m 49s
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Using the fillet, chamfer, and blend commands4m 41s
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Dividing and measuring6m 2s
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Editing polylines and splines6m 51s
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