how to select all the objects in a layer

[Anonymous]

How do I select all the objects in a layer without selecting each object in the layer one by one?

thanks

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Following are two ways you can do this.

1. In the drawing space, right-click on empty space to get the context menu.
Select "Quick Select". Using the "Layer" option in the Properties list, all
the objects in the layer specified will be selected.

2. In the AMLAYER, Layer tab, highlight the layer name you want and click on
"Selection Set". After exiting the dialog box, the selection set is
"remembered". To use the layer as the selection set, use Previous during
selection.

Regards,
Jul-Vie Siew
Product Designer
AutoCAD Mechanical

wrote in message news:5531034@discussion.autodesk.com...
How do I select all the objects in a layer without selecting each object in
the layer one by one?

thanks

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

You may also try the FILTER command.

Regards

Wu Tao

"RMIRZA" wrote in message news:5531034@discussion.autodesk.com...
How do I select all the objects in a layer without selecting each object in
the layer one by one?

thanks

[Anonymous]

You can also use LISP at the command line to get it...

(ssget "X" '((8 . "YOURLAYERNAME")))

Then invoke a command and select P (for previous).

[rornelas · Accepted solution]

A fifth option is to use the "Layer Isolate", then select everything.

[Anonymous]

Hi,

I should use Quick Select in the Properties-dialog...

Cheers
Rikard

[Anonymous]

Hi,

Unfortunately the other layers are on the top and the one that I need is under them. It doesn't let me show the one under that I need and I don't want to change the order of all the layers. Can't I just choose all the stuff that are on that layer so that it selects them right away?

[mark.kauhanen]

AutoCAD feels very rudimentary once you use Rhino... Selecting all objects on one layer should just be a Right Click away on the Layer.

I feel Selecting objects, in general, is not a strong suit of AutoCAD.

[pendean]

>>>... Selecting all objects on one layer should just be a Right Click away...<<<
@mark.kauhanen SELECTSIMILAR is right there as you desire: just control the parameters with SELECTSIMILARMODE for your desired always-active settings or LISP it to automate.

[ds2274]

100% accurate. I had to switch back to ACAD for a job, and I'm having Rhino withdrawals, things that were a click away are now the bulk of the time spent on a given project.

[alexandre.alvrz]

Yeah, Rhino is an absolute machine when it comes to work intuitively. I have to use autocad at work and i'm astonished how everything is so complicated, literally the whole software is awful and time-consuming. I really can't understand why schools ask students to start drawing with it. I mean rhino for students is worth 200$ and you have it for life AND is better in every way. Autodesk should delete this software asap, it would be life changing 🙂

[oleg.bykh]

Truth.

[temeddixMC5KM]

Agreed, but we all know that Autodesk just focuses on maintaining monopoly... without the actual improvement of the software..

I've been using Rhino and have been wondering while Autocad is still dominant in 2023. Perhaps it's because of its huge marketing sector, but who knows.