Select Similar Has Settings?

[#1]

Most of you know, and use the Select Similar command from the right-click menu.

This is probably one of my favorite tools to use. This tools makes it quick to select similar objects in one quick command. But what is the commonality of the objects that it selects? What is the selection based on?

Did you know that there are settings for this command? YES! If you actually type the command out, SELECTSIMILAR, you will have the options to type in, or select SEttings...

Once you click on the link or type SE, a dialog box will appear that will allow you to narrow down the selection that is performed by the software.

Now get out there and start selecting similar things!

[handjonathan]

Thanks @ToddRogers-WPM

I didnt think to look at the command line for settings 😅 Great tip

[msamayoa_1]

Gracias, es una herramienta muy util, lamentablemente se me deshabilito del mouse y no he podido reconfigurale

[shelby_l_smith]

@ToddRogers-WPM This is a great tip! I use select similar all the time, but I didn't realize there were different settings for it. Thanks so much for sharing!

[bahnasy92]

Great tip!

[pghcivil3d]

Nice tip Todd!

[Andre_van_Rijs]

Great tip. Thank you for that!

Now 'Select Similar' comes close to 'Quick Select' 

[clindner]

Good stuff, man. It certainly isn't intuitive. 🙄

Take it to the next level and add this hack to your CUI! 

And because I'm too lazy to type commands that are inexcusably long, I created this simple shortcut:

(defun C:SS ()

  (command "SELECTSIMILAR" "SE")

  (princ)

)

)

You're welcome! 😀 

[AVCPlugins]

This settings window clearly shows how limited the set of properties for searching for similar ones is. This is of course not enough. No length, no area, no volume, no material, no texts and sizes, no attributes and parameters of blocks , almost nothing useful. I had to program my command to look for similar objects in a real complex model.

[MarkGunnAutodesk]

Cheers, Todd. This is great!