Can't Delete or Zoom in on Objects

**ziemerd** · 5th Dec 2008 05:00 pm

I can see two objects in my drawing but I cannot zoom in on them nor can I delete them. Any idea what is going on with this drawing?

Thanks for the help.

Dawn

**ReMark** · 5th Dec 2008 05:05 pm

Here we go again. Didn't we just have a very similar situation like this not too long ago? It too was with an AutoCAD vertical product. It was the weirdest thing I ever saw. Geoffers would remember. I think it was something like a marker of some sort. It doesn't print out though, right?

**ziemerd** · 5th Dec 2008 05:57 pm

When I did a Plot Preview the objects showed up but when I actually plot it out the objects do not show up.

**ziemerd** · 5th Dec 2008 06:33 pm

I got it!!! I did a Ctrl A and that selected the objects. Why Ctrl A selected the objects where dragging a window did not is beyond me.

**ReMark** · 5th Dec 2008 06:38 pm

Very interesting. Thanks for sharing that information with us. I'll have to look up the key-combo and see what, if anything, it might be used for in AutoCAD.

**ReMark** · 5th Dec 2008 06:45 pm

Well Dawn you get today's prize for teaching me something new. In plain AutoCAD using < Ctrl > + < A > invokes a Select All. Looking at the command line I saw:

_ai_selall_ Selecting objects...done.

Everything in my drawing was highlighted. Interesting. Will have to remember that for those stubborn cases where some objects just don't like to get thrown out with the trash.

Thank you.

**rkent** · 5th Dec 2008 07:00 pm

Geographic markers show as a circle with lines radiating out from the center to the edge. Select all or Ctrl+A will not select them. Using geographiclocation command will let you remove them.

Sometimes the objects that are seen but can't be selected are artifacts from TTF text. I don't have one to try to see if it is selectable. I have stopped using TTF and have eliminated a lot of visual problems I was having.

**dtkell** · 5th Dec 2008 07:05 pm

Originally Posted by ReMark

... In plain AutoCAD using < Ctrl > + < A > invokes a Select All....

That's funny.
For me it toggles groups on and off.

**rkent** · 5th Dec 2008 07:09 pm

Originally Posted by dtkell

That's funny.
For me it toggles groups on and off.

For 2009 Shift+Ctrl+A or Ctrl+H toggles groups on and off, default OOB anyway.

**ReMark** · 5th Dec 2008 07:11 pm

Thanks rkent. Geographic markers. That's what I was referring to earlier.

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