From: AutoCAD Productivity Articles #88
Originally published: April 2010
Object Selection Cycling in A2011
Note: This is one of many circumstances when the ‘Selection Preview’ feature is quite useful. I highly recommend you keep the default settings for this feature, per the checks shown in this box found on the Selections tab of the Options dialog box [Application menu
Options].
AutoCAD 2011
AutoCAD 2011 improved upon the Selection Cycling feature that can now be toggled on from the Status bar. If you're using the icons, it's the last one in line. If you have disabled the icons, you will see SC.
How to Cycle Through Stacked Objects with AutoCAD 2011
Open a drawing that you know has an overlapping line condition, then launch the desired edit command (this only works with editing commands - such as Move, Erase, etc. - where a pickbox will appear).Launch any editing command - Move, Copy, Erase, etc. - then click Selection Cycling on the Status bar.
When prompted to ‘Select Objects’, position your cursor over a location where you know the lines overlap. A double-box icon will be displayed above your cursor which, essentially, confirms that more than one line lies below the cursor position.
When you click that location, the Selection dialog box appears, listing the object types that share that location, along with their color.Position your cursor over an item in the list and the associated object highlights in the drawing.
To select the highlighted object, click the item in the list and the Selection dialog box closes.
This is the most elegant idea for this process they have had to date.
See all the articles published in April 2010
See this article in the April 2010 Corner
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