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Change command without deselecting objects

santhoulakis — Wed, 16 Sep 2020 15:17:00 GMT

Sometimes we spend a lot of time selecting a group o objects and then by mistake give the wrong command. As a result, the selection is lost.

How can we keep our selection and just insert another command? Is there a setting that would keep the objects selected unless e.g. Esc is pressed?

Re: Change command without deselecting objects

Patchy — Wed, 16 Sep 2020 15:18:57 GMT

Use P for Previous selection.

Re: Change command without deselecting objects

vinodkl — Wed, 16 Sep 2020 15:41:54 GMT

Hi,

Even after deselecting, you can select back the same objects by using the "previous" option. Here is how you can do that.

Type in the new command after deselection like "MOVE" now press "P" and enter which would select the previous selection. There are many option like "Window/Last/Crossing/BOX/ALL/Fence/WPolygon/CPolygon/Group/Add/Remove/Multiple/Previous/Undo/AUto/SIngle/SUbobject/Object"

You can just type in the Bold letters highlighted above after the command to create different selections🙂

Re: Change command without deselecting objects

aadish_bin_abdul_sathar — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 05:55:57 GMT

thank u very much 🙂