Selection tools

Spatial Manager™ for AutoCAD includes several commands for advanced selection tasks.

Advanced selection commands in the Spatial Manager™ for AutoCAD ribbon

SPMSPATIALQUERY allows you to select objects in the drawing according to the result of advanced simple or compound spatial queries.
SPMSELECTBYQUERY allows you to select objects in the drawing according to the result of a simple or compound data query.
SPMSELECTBYTABLE allows you to select all the objects that have been previously attached to a specific data table.
SPMSELECTINVERSE allows you to invert the selection of objects in the drawing.
SPMZOOMTOSELECTION zooms to the current selection extent so you can locate all the selected objects in an optimal size view, and SPMZOOMTOSELECTIONLAYER zooms to all the objects included in the layers corresponding to the selected objects.

Invert the selected objects

The Spatial Manager™ for AutoCAD ‘SPMSELECTINVERSE’ command allows you to invert the selection of objects so that the selected objects are deselected and all other objects on active layers of the drawing are selected.

'SPMSELECTINVERSE' command in the Spatial Manager™ for AutoCAD ribbon

Notes:

Objects data: You can learn more about tables and attached data in the Data Structure Management chapter.
Selection performance: The selection of objects in AutoCAD may be slightly slower when the “SpatialManager” palette is open, depending on the data of the objects.
Complex and mixed selections: In addition to the use of the commands below, or in combination with them, you can make use of selecting objects in the Data Grid or by using any other selection method available in AutoCAD (Quick Select, etc.). Also note that, as most of the advanced application or AutoCAD selection commands allow you to apply the selection to the current selection, the number of possible combinations to select what you are interested in is almost unlimited.

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