I have been working with AutoCAD LT 2013 as a trial edition and it didn't seem to be much different than 2012. Ever since I got the full license for it, wierd things have been changing. Most of them I'm fine with, they don't bother me all that much, but there is one thing that is highly annoying. Whenever I have two lines on top of each other and I go to select one of them, a dialog box appears with the different line selections to choose from. My job hardly ever requires many lines having to be on top of each other, so I'm usually just dealing with two lines overlapping. How do I get rid of this box?

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Edited by CopeCAD2 - 10.Jul.2012 at 17:49

I know of this utility. I enable it sometimes when I have a lot of overlapping lines.  I'm using Civil3D so it may be different for you but I'll describe how to turn it off anyway.

Edited by bigalfry - 10.Jul.2012 at 18:33

Honestly, I wouldn't recommend disabling that function.  Your example shows two white lines, probably on the same layer, where one of them may be unnecessary.  But in complicated drawings things aren't always going to be this simple.  You will encounter many cases where an important line or polyline under that particular section will get modified because you weren't aware of it and disregarded it.  The problems you're likely to face afterward will be frustrating and time consuming.

Whatever floats your boat I guess.  But as John mentions above, turning things like this off is an 'all or nothing' option.  You lose other equally important messages in the process, and may end up shooting your time clock in the foot.