Select by color. the fastest way!

[samifox]

Hi

i want to select all lines colored with red. qselect is not working sometimes. filter is to detailed for this simple task. what is the fastest way to select object by color?

Thanks
Shay

[ReMark]

QSelect in my opinion is still the fastest.

[StykFacE]

FILTER to me is the fastest because you can save a Selection Filter for future use so you don't have to keep going through the same procedure of selecting the necessary parameters. Unless, of course, you create a LISP routine.

No pun intended Mark. You still my boy, blue.

[CyberAngel]

When does QSelect work and when does it not work? That should tell you why it won't do what you want.

The difficulty, I suspect, is that you have some lines that are red because they are on a red layer (or layers) and have the color ByLayer, and you may have other lines that are explicitly assigned the color red. Unless (as StykFacE pointed out) you have a filter defined for this task, you can't select all those items at once.

I'm curious: why do you need to select everything that is a particular color? If it's a plotting issue, you can adjust the color table.

[SLW210]

FILTER to me is the fastest because you can save a Selection Filter for future use so you don't have to keep going through the same procedure of selecting the necessary parameters. Unless, of course, you create a LISP routine.

Filter would be great. Pretty sure you should be able to locate a LISP already that can do this, probably at Cadcorner or Cadalyst.

More importantly you should try to determine the cause of Qselect not working.

[SLW210]

Cadalyst TIP #1046 Select by color.

[khoshravan]

Cadalyst TIP #1046 Select by color.

http://cadtips.cadalyst.com/node/tip...ds=tip%20#1046
I couldn't find tip #1046 in above site.

[ReMark]

You got to know how to do it. Try this link:

http://cadtips.cadalyst.com/misc-use...s/select-color

[khoshravan]

You got to know how to do it. Try this link:

http://cadtips.cadalyst.com/misc-use...s/select-color

Thanks your link reached the page.
I searched but no result were found.

[ReMark]

So you downloaded the lisp routine and tried it out?

The key was to search on TIP1046.lsp.