![]() Press CTRL + H again to return to Group selection. TIP: It is usually quicker to turn off Group selection globally by pressing CTRL + H on your Keyboard. With the ‘Object Grouping’ dialog open select the group you want to edit from the list and click on the ‘Selectable’ button. If you want to select individual entities within the Group you can turn of group selection for that one specific group using the ‘Group’ command. When you Pick an entity that is part of a group, the whole group is selected. In the Create Group area, click New – The dialog box will close temporarily to allow you to make your selection.In the Object Grouping dialog box, under Group Identification, enter a group name and an optional description.Your group name is automatically converted to uppercase characters. Group names can be up to 31 characters long and can include letters, numbers, and the special characters dollar sign ($), hyphen (-), and underscore (_) but not spaces. Unnamed groups do not show up in the dialog box, unless you check the ‘Include unnamed’ box. If you copy a group, the copy is given a name automatically and is considered unnamed. When you create a group, you can give the group a name and description. TIP: Groups are good for organising multiple dynamic blocks. However, if you bind and then explode the X-reference or explode the block the geometry will still be grouped under an automatically created name. Your group name is not maintained when you use a drawing as an X-reference or insert it as a block. Groups are saved from session to session, but are not transferable between drawings like Blocks are. NOTE: ‘Un-named’ groups should really be called automatically named groups. Unlike Blocks, when you copy a group a new, ‘un-named’ set of grouped elements is created that have no link to the original group. Unlike Blocks you can easily edit an element that is part of a Group. Unlike Blocks it is possible to add or remove geometry from a group as you are working. Unlike polylines, groups can contain many different elements, these elements can have different properties and can be on different layers. A large group significantly degrades AutoCAD’s performance. TIP: Avoid creating large groups containing hundreds or thousands of objects. The objects in your drawing can be members of more than one group, and groups themselves can be nested in other groups. Groups have unique names, therefore groups can be selected by name. ![]() Groups are easy to create: Start the GROUP command, enter the name for a new group, select ‘NEW’, and select the objects that belong to the new group.Īll this grouped geometry is selected with a single pick
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