Some of the tools described allow object selections before or during their execution. Even some of them allow you to select two groups of objects to operate between them.

For all of these commands, the following notes and instructions apply:

• Select all objects: All objects in the drawing will be processed.
• Only selected objects: Only a selection of objects will be processed. You can select the objects before executing the commands or by using the Selecting buttons in their corresponding windows.
  • Manual selection.
  • Select by Query: Select objects according to the result of a simplex or compound data query (See ‘Selecting by Query’).
  • Select by Table: Select objects which have been previously attached to a specific data table (See ‘Selecting by Table’).
    Note: As you can select the objects previously to execute the commands, in addition to the use of the above included selection options or in combination with them, you can make use of some other Advanced selection application tools, select objects in the Data Grid, or any other selection method available in AutoCAD (Quick Select, etc.). Also note that, as most of the advanced application or AutoCAD selection commands will let you apply the selection to the current selection, the number of possible combinations to select what you are interested in is almost unlimited.
• Select objects in a layer: Only the objects included in a AutoCAD layer will be processed. You can select the layer using the drop-down list in this window.

Note: The selection of objects in AutoCAD may be a bit slower when the “SpatialManager” palette is open, depending on the data of the objects.