topic Re: OVERLAPPING LINE SELECTION in AutoCAD Forum

OVERLAPPING LINE SELECTION

Anonymous — Thu, 09 Apr 2015 18:22:56 GMT

When I have two overlapping lines, the selection is defaulted to picking the background line and not the top line. I cannot seem to find any setting or comnmand that changes this to selecting the forground line as I am used to.

Re: OVERLAPPING LINE SELECTION

Patchy — Thu, 09 Apr 2015 18:36:51 GMT

LEGACYCTRLPICK,

Set to 1 and then hold down the CTRL key when picking with left mouse button and it would cycle, It used to be that way.

Re: OVERLAPPING LINE SELECTION

jmayo-EE — Thu, 09 Apr 2015 18:38:44 GMT

You need to manage objects for DrawOrder. Last in wins or in this case will always be on top. Even if the display fails to display this correctly.

The other option is to toggle Selection Cycling on by clicking the button on the status bar. I am not sure if there is a keyboard shortcut for the cycling.

Re: OVERLAPPING LINE SELECTION

pendean — Thu, 09 Apr 2015 19:12:37 GMT

In addition to the excellent advice so far, if you have Express Tools installed and your draworder preferences happen to match object colors, you can use CDORDER command.

Re: OVERLAPPING LINE SELECTION

Anonymous — Fri, 10 Apr 2015 11:06:32 GMT

I was able to figure it out with some changes to the selection preview and legacyctrlpick, but I changed so many things and nothing took hold until I rebooted so I am not entirely sure what actualy solved it. the problem wasn't that I couldn't cycle, it was that the default picked the original and background line over anything that was drawn on top of it. for instance if I had a line and drew a line from its center to one end and then tried to select it, it would default to selecting the longer original line regardless of layer or style. Again, I am not sure what exactly the solution was, but it is fixed and I thank everyone for their input.