Group Command question

[gtwatson]

I have been using ACAD LT for a while and there are 4 ICONS to Group entities in one of the menus. I've been playing with ACAD 2004 a little and although there is a GROUP command which seems more powerful, there is no Icon to bring it up. It's been a while but I have added an Icon in ACAD LT to do some commands and I guess I'll have to do an Icon for Group in ACAD 2004. Is this correct?

[Tiger]

I don't know if there is a icon for the GROUP command, but it might be on a toolbar that you haven't brought up. Right-click on a toolbar and you get a list of toolbars availible. The ones with tickmarks are the ones you have up, tick more to bring up more and see if you find the GROUP command.

[Tiger]

I took a look in my help-file, from that I gather that there is no icon for GROUP, at least not in ACAD 2008. When you say that there is icons for Group in a menu, do you mean that you find the group-commands in a pulldown menu, as in Format or Tools or Draw at the top of your screen?

 

Not that I can find Gorup on one of my menus though...

 

But as far as I can see, yes, you need to create your own button for the Group command.

[Skeeps]

I always used to select everything I want in the group and right click to the shortcut menu then group, I've not found I need an icon when I was using Acad lt 04. Do you have your right click shortcut menu enabled in acad 2004? Does it appear on that?

[gtwatson]

Yes, I checked the menus and don't see a group menu like in LT. I have attached a screen shot from LT of the 4 Icons. The top is the Group command, next is the Ungroup command, next is the Group Manager, and last is the toggle for group selection on/off.

 

My right click is set to the old-time Enter or repeat the last command so when I select several entities I just get the last command I executed when I right click. I guess I'll just have to get used to ACAD not having an Icon for Group or make one myself.

 

Thanks for the help.

 

BTW, how do I add a sig line on this forum? I looked in the User CP but don't see a place to put a signature.

[Tiger]

Makeing a couple of buttons is not too difficult, or you could get used to typing G (for Group) on the keyboard, faster as well :wink:

 

When you reach your tenth post, you get the possibility to add your own signatur, as well as use the PM system - this is a limitation in place to reduce spam.

[gtwatson]

Thanks for the tip. I'll have to ask more questions to get to 10 posts. I have a funny sig (well, to me anyway) that I borrowed from a Think Geek web site that goes:

There are 10 types of people in the world; those that understand binary and those that don't.