Autocad Selection

[Anonymous]

Hi

How can you keep a selection active when navigating between different files?

Thanks

Regards

ME

[steven-g]

by definition if you are no longer in the file it is no longer active, what are you trying to achive?

[Anonymous]

What I mean is to have my selection still on, When navigating to another AutoCAD file, If somthisg is missing i can just add it to the selection not to do it all over again.

Thanks

ME

[cadffm]

That feature is going in the past. I cry for this if i need to change my work Version to a newer one.

[TheCADnoob]

Assuming i understand what you are needing,

I use GROUP to do this. I select everything i think im going to need. Once i go back to that drawing i just select one thing in that group and it selects the entire group. You can add and remove from there. 

[pendean]

Once you leave the program or file window, selection is lost. That's by design.
Is there a reason the sub-selection option of PREVIOUS is not being considered? Works fine here for all of us when we do what you do.

[Anonymous]

It is one solution but not exactly what I am asking for, as  I remember in old versions, The selection can be kept as it is unless you press "Escape Button".

Many Thanks to you.

[TheCADnoob]

@pendean suggestion is probably a cleaner route than using group when considering your previous workflow.

[cadffm]

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Momadarch schrieb:

It is one solution but not exactly what I am asking for, as  I remember in old versions, The selection can be kept as it is unless you press "Escape Button".

Many Thanks to you.

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cadffm schrieb:
That feature is going in the past. I cry for this if i need to change my work Version to a newer one.

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The new technologie what not allowd the old feature came with Version 2015(?)

[steven-g]

And do you remember, discovering that you had accidently moved or deleted something important in another drawing, sometimes hours/days later. I know which problem I'd rather face

[cadffm]

No. Never.

And i wished the SELECTIONOFFSCREEN function since my first week with Autocad.

SelectionOffScreen=0 It´s  illogical and i am thinking that "accidently selection" is 99% by SelectionOffScreen=0

accidently = accidently lost the wanted objects by window selection&pan

In one company i know, PICKADD is hard set to 0, because the CAD-Manager have fear the CADworker copy- or delete objects they would not like.

I am working with osmode=6327, but some gross motor peaple can´t work with that. They dont know how the snap is working.

[Kent1Cooper]

How  are you navigating between files?

I'm at my ol' Acad2004 location right now, and it doesn't have  the row of "tabs" for the drawings I have open, as newer versions do.  But if I change between drawings with either  the list in the "Window" pull-down on the File/Edit/etc. menu bar at the top, or  using the Ctrl+Tab-key combination, selection is  preserved in any drawings I have something like that going in, for both  no-command-active pre-selection and editing-command Select-objects:-prompt selection.

I don't recall that Window pull-down being there in the Ribbon-based arrangement, but I do  know that Ctrl+Tab still moves around between open drawings -- try that instead of picking the on-screen tabs, and see whether that still preserves mid-command selection in newer versions.

[cadffm]

It does not matter how you change,
* Ctrl+Tab (include 'Start' as normal DrawingTab, invented by anyone who works with more like a document)
* showtabs
* Click to file window
* or by window-menu
* and any kind of switching by API

Since Microsoft Fiber removed in 2015

[Anonymous]

Hi there,

I'm new to AutoCAD and I worked for more than a decade with another CAD application in an architect's office. There are tons of options and tools that I am missing here in AutoCAD and it is quite annoying. Especially when I'm missing some of the most basic functions and settings a modern CAD nowadays should have. At least from my perspective and past experiences.

Long story short, I have the same problem as you and I wish I could keep my objects selected for the next couple tasks until I press "Esc" or unselect manually.

Did you figured out how to keep the objects selected?

Many regards and I'm looking forward to hearing from you

I'm using: Q.104.0.0 AutoCAD LT 2020.1.2

[RobDraw]

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@Anonymous wrote:

I wish I could keep my objects selected for the next couple tasks until I press "Esc" or unselect manually.

Did you figured out how to keep the objects selected?

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AutoCAD no longer works that way.

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@Anonymous wrote:

There are tons of options and tools that I am missing here in AutoCAD and it is quite annoying.

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Maybe if you ask questions here, you can find the "options" that you are looking for. AutoCAD is very capable of a lot of things just maybe not in the way that other programs do them.

[pendean]

LT is a limited feature variant of AutoCAD (you are posting in the wrong forum too): what is the software you used to use?
And I am not quite familiar with your wish/desire, can you elaborate a bit more?

OR... ask your employer for a software upgrade perhaps? If they don;t want to spend the time/effort/money getting you training etc.

[s.borello]

You can't... AutoCAd doesn't work that way now.