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Selecting objects

Selecting objects - AutoCAD Tutorial

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Selecting objects

- [Voiceover] We're now in a new section of our AutoCAD 2017 Essentials course. We're going to be looking at modifying objects that already exist in an AutoCAD drawing. Now you'll notice we have a new drawing. It's 05_ModifyingObjects.dwg, you can see that at the top of the screen there. And you can download that from your Lynda.com exercise files as usual. Now you'll notice it's a similar drawing to what we've been using. You've got the grid lines, you've got the building, but you'll notice there's some extra bits in the middle there. We have some furniture, and that furniture is a group of AutoCAD blocks that I've deliberately brought in. There are sample blocks that you get with every installed version of AutoCAD. So they're not proprietary, they're not any particular type of furniture, they're just standard default blocks representing some objects. So we're gonna look at selecting objects. Now, as usual, in this particular drawing I've set up a named model view. So go over to the…

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