block question...

[Longhorn20]

well, since jumping back to autocad after working on macs powercad and archicad for some time, i have forgotten certain commands and was looking to see if you all could shed some light...

i remember there used to be a command that i would type, then do a selection window and autocad would make a copy of what was in the window and turn it into a block. kind of like a screen capture... this was great for copy and pasting... rather than selecting with an open box it pulls all the things in and touching... this gets everything inside the box and whatever stretches from inside and continues outside is trimed to the box boundary...

ring any bells? i remember it being really useful for interiers and stuff...

thanks

[Dean Saadallah]

Crossing selection window: simply click on screen to start, then go left
with your window.
Going right is a standard window selection.

Typing C when prompted for a selection let's you go in either direction.

[Longhorn20]

ok dean...

let's get away from autocad fundamentals here...

i know how to copy and what the difference between the open seletion box and the closed selection box...

i know typing c then selecting either way makes a copy of what you select...

i know selecting first then hitting c to copy also works... or selecting first, then control c to copy to clipboard...

all elementary....

what i am looking for is the command or maybe it is a plug-in... that ...

actually this might be a powercad function....

what it does is... picture the plot box... you select plot window... then you select a certain window... and only what was in that window is plotted... if the line was longer than the window, only the part in the window is plotted... now instead of plotting, thing of the tool as simply creating a block of what was in that window with the same characteristics...

again, i now think that might have been a powercad command but i am hoping autocad also has one...

any ideas?

[Dean Saadallah]

LOL, I believe I answered your question correctly: you went off with C for
Copy, when I was referring to C for Crossing-Selection while in a command
and being prompted to select objects.

With PICKFIRST and PICKADD set to 1 (one), with no commands running, simply
windowing selections to the left gives you the crossing window (your words:
everything in a box and anything running out past the box), while pulling to
the right gives you a window selection only.

I never mentioned the command COPY in my first reply, and was not offering
tips on COPY command either.

PowerCAD and IntelliCAD both copied this from AutoCAD ;)

[derekagar]

I went from full blown AutoCAD to Powercad2000 and then back to LT2004. Was I ever glad to get away from Powercad - one or two useful functions but generally an absolute nightmare (IMHO) ;<)
DA

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