Bobzy20 Posted February 25, 2016 Share Posted February 25, 2016 Hi See attached dwg file. Both the PD & Switch blocks have slightly different names and I have hundreds of each in my drawings and I want to select them all and delete them. How can this been done in the filter command? Thanks Bob CR-TEST.dwg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danellis Posted February 25, 2016 Share Posted February 25, 2016 The Block Name option in the FILTERS dialog allows wildcards In this example only blocks whose name starts c3 will be selected. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobDraw Posted February 25, 2016 Share Posted February 25, 2016 Alternatively, select one. Right click. Select similar. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobzy20 Posted February 25, 2016 Author Share Posted February 25, 2016 Thanks very much, I managed to get it working on the switches but not the red PD's. I love select similar but it doesn't work on these blocks as they all have unique names. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobDraw Posted February 25, 2016 Share Posted February 25, 2016 Oops, read too quickly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SLW210 Posted February 25, 2016 Share Posted February 25, 2016 The PD blocks are anonymous (*U), depending on what else is in your drawing that you need to keep, you will probably need some LISP to select them by name, AFAIK. To use selectsimilar, you need to uncheck Name and whatever else would cause objects you didn't want to delete to be selected, if the main differenc between what is to be deleted and what is to be kept is the name, it will not be much help. It would be helpful to know what is in the drawing that needs to be kept. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobzy20 Posted March 2, 2016 Author Share Posted March 2, 2016 Thanks for the replies, I did most of it using the filter command and the rest was completed manually. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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