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

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

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Invert the selected entities

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

Notes:

• Entities data: You can learn more about tables and attached data in the Data Structure Management chapter.
• Selection performance: The selection of entities in ZWCAD may be slightly slower when the “SpatialManager” palette is open, depending on the data of the entities.
• Complex and mixed selections: In addition to the use of the commands below, or in combination with them, you can make use of selecting entities in the Data Grid or by using any other selection method available in ZWCAD (Quick Select, etc.). Also note that, as most of the advanced application or ZWCAD 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.