Toggling between lines

I cannot seem to find a way to toggle between two lines that are on top of each other. I am in 2012 TL. Can anyone shed some light?

Thanks!

Place your cursor over the objects and use Ctrl + Spacebar to cycle through the selection.

That didn't work for me

I usually pick both and remove one - if you want to remove go r and instead of saying add objects it will say remove objects go A to go back to add

It should work (works fine for me in 2012 and in previous versions). Perhaps you have some system variable turned off.

It is explained near the bottom of http://www.cadtutor.net/tutorials/autocad/object-selection.php

Yes looks like Legacyctlpick has to be set to 1

Then it works with Ctrl + pick

Just to let you know you have to type legacyctrlpick to change the varible

Also when i was very new to auto cad i read a book and i thought there was an easyer way to cycle through lines

I can't remmeber it through

Just to let you know you have to type legacyctrlpick to change the varible

 

Also when i was very new to auto cad i read a book and i thought there was an easyer way to cycle through lines

 

I can't remmeber it through

That is the way I have always known it. Although if it is called legacy pick, that implies it was superseded by something else.

Use Selection Cycling, click on the SC toggle at the middle bottom of the screen (if icons are showing then it is the one to the right of the middle group, looks like two overlapping squares and a + sign) or Ctrl+W. Toggle it back off when not needed.

if you want to remove go r and instead of saying add objects it will say remove objects go A to go back to add

 

I usually pick both and remove one - if you want to remove go r and instead of saying add objects it will say remove objects go A to go back to add

Or hold shift down and pick, that will remove from the selection set, release shift to add to selection set.

Or hold shift down and pick, that will remove from the selection set, release shift to add to selection set.

I was wondering how to do that i was holding down ctrl as a habit form another program.

Use Selection Cycling, click on the SC toggle at the middle bottom of the screen (if icons are showing then it is the one to the right of the middle group, looks like two overlapping squares and a + sign) or Ctrl+W. Toggle it back off when not needed.

This is great but on the computer i am using at the moment it makes it painfully laggy. Is it really that intencive a function i don't think it should make it lag. Any ideas how to fix this

Put them on different layers and freeze the ones you don't want to mess with. No toggling required then.

Put them on different layers and freeze the ones you don't want to mess with. No toggling required then.

This is a good sujestion and i always do it this way but if you are given a dwg that does not have layering and there are line on top of lines it is very hard to navigate without toggling.

Best to layer you drawings approprately although other people and programmes will never do it.

If someone sends you drawings all on one layer, drive over to his office and whop him in the face with a big wet lasagna noodle!

I Know but sometimes when you convert from other programms they don't understand the point of correct layering for the job and me being an Trainiee are the cheapest way to fix the problem. It is infurating how people don't consider good habbits when setting up a drawing and it doesn't affect them directly until the drawing comes to me and take for ever because i have to fix ever little thing. And then they assume it is because i am not working hard enought when it is really their fault.

Not Bitter or anything. :wink: