Selection - crossing vs inside window

[Anonymous]

As far as I can remember when using AutoCAD, which is back to around 1989, when you click and sweep left or down to make a window, you select everything touching or CROSSING the window. If you click and sweep right or up, you only selet objects INSIDE the window. This is how it is described in the Help topic as well:

Implied Windowing

Initiates the drawing of a selection window when you select a point outside an object. (PICKAUTO system variable)

Drawing the selection window from left to right selects objects that are entirely inside the window's boundaries. Drawing from right to left selects objects within and crossing the window's boundaries.

Today, it isn't working that way. I am trying to select some text mixed in over a title info block with block attributes that extend well outside my selection window, in fact they are off the screen. Instead the window is not only selecting the text I want, but the entire block with all its attributes, even thought I did a window instead of crossing, and even though some of the block isn't even visible in the current view. Some of it is even invisible text, not selectable by any means! Even stranger, the same window is not selecting the title block also visible in the current view, which is the proper behavior. I hope I'm explaining this clearly.

I've checked all the relevant variables I can think of. Any idea what's going wrong?

[TheCADnoob]

Is it possible that the items you are selecting are part of a group?

[leeminardi]

"when you click and sweep left or down to make a window, you select everything touching or CROSSING the window. If you click and sweep right or up, you only selet objects INSIDE the window."

The up or down action has nothing to do with whether select window or cross is used.  Left is cross and right is window.

What text are you trying to select in your drawing? Is it the text in the upper right? I did not have a problem.

[beyoungjr]

Looked at your drawing.  You have a mix of items working in and around your title block.  I delete the title block and there are 33 items still occupying title block space.  The magenta items (32 each) are just plain text, but the black items (1 ea) are a block that has an origin of 0,0.  The title block is an XREF as you know.

Total objects = 35

1 Viewport

1 Xref

1 Block

32 Text

Maybe the item you are trying to select is part of the black text which is a block???

Cheers,

Blaine

[schin.pet]

I was experiencing the same problem. I solved it by setting SELECTIONOFFSCREEN to 0.