Gordon Knight Posted July 13, 2010 Share Posted July 13, 2010 On AutoCAD 2006 , at work in my office, I wish to group some entities. At home I use AutoCAD LT which involves selecting GROUP from a task window, selecting entitities and tapping complete. They are then grouped and I can jerk them around at will. Happy me.At the office however, I must begin by typing "Group" as a command and am then given a window to give the desired group a name and select other characteristics for it. I have applied all possible combinations of choices for what I might want, have selected the entities for the group and answered as affirmitively as options allow that what I have indicated is what I want and can get a response from the cursor that the entities are a group . . . UNTIL I TRY TO DO SOMETHING WITH THE GROUP. It behaves as if it weren't grouped.i.e., the whole thing lights up as if it were a group but I can only manipulate one piece of itWould someone be kind enough to give me a simple human algorithm for grouping entities in AutoCAD 2006? I mean somethingthing really simple that will allow for no other outcome than grouping, seeing the indication of groupness, and being able to move, rotate or whatever the grouped thing as a whole.I do not need to know how to ungroup, add or subtract from the group.I moved things that I had successfully grouped in the past to another file in order to ungroup them. That I had successfully grouped in the past (six months or so) leads me to think that I have inserted a command into the general system to indicate success in a grouping endeavor but then ignore the effects of having done so.This is my first post on this B Log so bear with me regarding my replies to anyone offering assistance.Gordon Knight Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lpseifert Posted July 13, 2010 Share Posted July 13, 2010 to make a long story short... Try Ctrl+H (or Pickstyle=1 or 3) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gordon Knight Posted July 13, 2010 Author Share Posted July 13, 2010 To lengthen a short reply . . On a field with two objects to group I did Ctrl+H and was instructed to enter a new value for pickstyle. All attempts to enter anything got nothing but "invalid command" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lpseifert Posted July 13, 2010 Share Posted July 13, 2010 Pickstyle controls the use of group selection (look in Help). Ctrl+H toggles Pickstyle. Hit Ctrl+H, then try and select an existing group. Hit Ctrl+H and again try and select the group. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pablo Ferral Posted July 14, 2010 Share Posted July 14, 2010 to make a short answer even longer - here's a tutorial I wrote: http://thecadsetterout.wordpress.com/2009/10/29/autocad-use-groups-to-organise-your-geometry/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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