Selecting Elements Based on Attributes

When you use the Element Selection tool, you can select, or group, the elements by a variety of means, including by:

level
color
line style
line weight
type
class
template

For example, you can request ConstructSim Planner to select all text elements or all elements with line weight 3. You can even specify search criteria based on different kinds of attributes — for example, green, dotted arc elements on level 22 and level 23.

By default, selected elements are bracketed with squares called handles. If any elements are selected, an arrowhead icon is displayed in the status bar. The number to the right of the icon is the number of selected elements.

The Select By Attributes dialog is used to select elements based on specified criteria.

Select elements (in a sense, extend the Element Selection).
Locate elements.
Filter the elements that are displayed.

Selection criteria can be saved in separate files for reuse.

Note: For criteria settings to be effective, the third unlabeled option menu under Mode must be set to On.

Note: When you close the Select By dialog, an alert box displays:

Click OK to continue to apply the Select By settings.
Click Cancel to unload the "selectby.ma" MDL application.

Note: Key-ins must be activated by the key-in SELECTBY EXECUTE. SELECTBY must be loaded (MDL LOAD SELECTBY) and the type cleared by keying in SELECTBY TYPE NONE.