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Yamma
26th Apr 2006, 08:56 am
Is there a possibility for inverse selection in AutoCAD (2004)?

I have a drawing that has some invisible objects (like nodes and empty texts) far outside the drawing limits and when I use zoom extends my actual drawing shows very very tiny. So I want to delete all objects outside my drawing limits but I can't find them since they're invisible. Is there a way to select all objects, except objects inside my drawing limits?

At the moment I'll do it by copying my actual drawing first, then select all and delete and then paste my drawing again. But if there's a way for inverse selection, it would be more simpler.

Cad64
26th Apr 2006, 09:57 am
You could try typing Ctrl+A to select All, then Shift+Select and window your drawing to deselect it. Then hit delete to erase all the left over junk that's still selected.

Or

Wblock your drawing out to a new file and delete the old one.

Yamma
26th Apr 2006, 10:02 am
Yeap! Shift + select was the thing I was looking for. Thanks!