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Quick select - AutoCAD for Mac Tutorial

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Quick select

[Instructor] - A selection tool recently added by AutoCAD for Mac is the quick select tool. Quick select is a filtering tool that allows you to pick geometry in your drawing based on specific criteria. I can use the quick select tool to find specific objects like all of the lines that are red, or maybe all of the blue poly lines, or in my case, I want to find all of the green circles that have a radius bigger than two. The tool is found here in the toolbar and once it starts here we can see I have a bunch of different options. I can either search the entire drawing, or I can choose a specific selection set. Next, my criteria needs to match all of the following rules that I find in this box. The object type I'm going to change to circle, and then I want to add some additional parameters using these three little dots here. I have a bunch of different categories. I said that my color needed to be green, so I'll go ahead and add…

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