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Erasing both duplicate and original object

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Erasing both duplicate and original object

Anonymous
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Hello all,

 

I have a thousands of objects in my drawing. I want to be able to select those with identical properties (same location, size, layer etc.), so that I can erase all identical objects, meaning both the duplicate and the original.

 

How do I go about doing this? Overkill will not delete both.

 

Thanks,

Samu

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Alfred.NESWADBA
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Hi,

 

>> I want to be able to select those with identical properties

>> (same location, size, layer etc.)

Except of the same location there exists a command _SELECTSIMILAR (>>>details<<<) which can select same objects, maybe that helps...

 

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Anonymous
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Hi,

 

I can't make selectsimilar to choose based on identical size, location... It will always pick all the objects of the same type - in other words, it selects similar, not identical.

 

Samu

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Alfred.NESWADBA
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Hi,

 

>> based on identical size

You can follow with _QSELECT to select from the previous selection all objects with a specific size.

 

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Anonymous
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No, I still cannot make it work with qselect either, and the problem arises from the object type, 3D face, and properties options available.

 

I should have been more specific from the beginning. Attached you can find an example of the situation I am talking about. The actual drawing has thousands of times more objects in it.

 

I want there to be holes where two faces are currently on top of each other, all identical faces gone. Can you figure out a way?

 

Thanks!

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Alfred.NESWADBA
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Hi,

 

>> and the problem arises from the object type

That's what I was waiting for ... :cara_guiñando_un_ojo:

"Size" can be very different, depending on the object type. Is it the 2D projected length or is it an area or is it the extents-value of an object, what is in CAD a "object size"

"Position" can be very different, as a line can have a startpoint which is equal to the endpoint of another oriented line, even if they are laying one on top of the other

"identical properties" can be critical when you have one time a circle and the other time a block with a circle

 

So when you can exactly define what is equal from your point of view someone might be able to give you a step-by-step workflow or maybe knows a tool or writes a tool that can do that.

 

- alfred -

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Anonymous
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Thanks Alfred :cara_con_una_leve_sonrisa: In this particular case, two equal 3D faces share identical values for vertex x, y and z for all 4 vertices they are comprise of.

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Alfred.NESWADBA
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Hi,

 

>> In this particular case, two equal 3D faces share identical values

>> for vertex x, y and z for all 4 vertices they are comprise of.

Well, for that you need to create your own tool or search in www if there exists a tool that can find 3D-Faces with equal vertices. This can not be done with any command out of the box.

 

You might look in the customization forum >>>there<<<.

 

Sorry, - alfred -

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Anonymous
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That's what I thought. I haven't found a tool or method to accomplish what I want yet. I will look into that forum.

 

Appreciate your help!

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cadffm
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For fellow readers: Here is the sequel, now with some background information. Link->Continuation
and whoever is looking for will find a Quick & Dirty solution (at your own risk).

Sebastian

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