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Quickly select all objects in a given layer or all blocks ABC.

The new command SELECTSIMILAR in AutoCAD 2011 allows to quickly select all drawing objects which are some way similar to the picked object. So you can easily select e.g. all entities in a given layer, all entities with a given color, style, linetype, or all references of the same block.

The selection method of similar objects (similarity) can be controlled by the option Settings or by the SELECTSIMILARMODE variable.

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17.4.2010 3033x

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applies to: AutoCAD 2011 · AutoCAD LT 2011 ·

See also:
Tip 7010:	AutoCAD reports SELECTSIMILAR as an unknown command.
Tip 6365:	The "Select similar" function also in plain AutoCAD.
Tip 5448:	How to select all entities in a specified layer?

Selected tip: Only partial drawing is plotted (plotter out of memory).

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