copy and delete
@theodore.macaulay wrote:
so I'm looking for a feature wherein I can select a whole bunch of stuff and then select another whole bunch of stuff and then delete the 1st group from the 2nd group
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All editing commands involving object selection include a Remove option [that's Remove from the selection, not from the drawing]. Select the first whole bunch under initial/default Add mode, then type R to go into Remove mode, and pick the another whole bunch, and it will be removed from the larger selection.
@theodore.macaulay wrote:
I have no idea how this is supposed to work but it doesn't work the way you described. This just opens the purge box and purging doesn't do anything for me
What command are you using? How are you selecting things, and where are calling for the Remove option to un-select things? If Purge is coming up, that's from something unrelated to the selection process and its options. Can you make a screencast or .gif-video of what you're doing?
@theodore.macaulay wrote:
.... I'm selecting things with my mouse, just a bunch of 2d objects, lines and some arcs basically. then I type REMOVE in the command line and it opens the purge box
REMOVE turns out to be a stand-in alternative command name for PURGE, which means you are typing it in at the Command: prompt, not within an editing command's object selection.
Try either:
A) don't pre-select objects, but first start an editing command [COPY, ERASE, MOVE, CHPROP, or whatever it is you're trying to do with things], and within the object-selection prompting of that command, choose things as you like, and at some point where it's asking you to Select objects:, type in R for Remove [you can type more of the word, but R is all you need]. Remove as a selection option, just as with [for example] Last as a selection option, works only within the Select objects: context, not out in the nothing-happening-yet kind of object pre-selection world. [As a comparison, if you type in L at a Select objects: prompt, you get the Last object, but if you type it in outside that context, including with some objects pre-selected, you get the LINE command and it dumps any pre-selection -- same situation with Remove. If you had typed just R instead of the whole word, you would have gotten REDRAW rather than PURGE.]
or:
B) if you want to do nothing-happening-yet pre-selection of objects, you can remove things by holding the Shift key down while picking things [including with Window/Crossing/Lasso options] to remove from the selection. This also works within an editing command in the Select objects: context.
@theodore.macaulay wrote:
I get as far as being in the remove command and then it just asks me where to copy it as normal anyway
I don't understand. Under the editing-command object selection process, Remove is a mode or option, not a command. Are you somehow selecting some things and hitting Enter before you type R, so that you complete the selection and are back at the Command: prompt, instead of still being in object selection? You should be typing R at some point when the Command-line prompt says Select objects: , and after having selected a larger set of objects some of which you are going to want to remove from the selection.
A screencast showing exactly what steps you are taking, what entries you are supplying, and in what order, would be helpful.
