Simple Selection Question but stumped

Rakesh Rao

Hello,

I have a few entities placed in my "previous" selection set. I can access this by typing P in resonse to "Select entities".

How do I get these entities to appear as default pre-selected when I start the 'Properties' command?

In other words, unless I select some entities with my mouse and grip-select them, it does not show in the 'Properties' window.

My question is - how do I pre-select entities from my "Previous" in-memory selection so that it appears in 'Properties' window?

Must be a simple answer, so I am posting it here first, else will file an SR.

Thanks
Rakesh Rao
www.coordsys.com

Rakesh Rao

Some more info: In other words, in AutoCAD, I can go to 'Properties' and say "Add Objects" and say P and my previous selection set gets gripped, highlighted and shown in 'Properties'. I could not find this in Bricscad. Am I missing something?

- rakesh rao

Roy Klein Gebbinck

Command:
SELGRIPS

Lisp:
(sssetfirst nil (ssget "_P"))

Rakesh Rao

Thanks Roy. I knew it was simple and possible but did not know what it was.

Jason Bourhill

Hi Rakesh,

Its a good point, you should be able to do this from the property bar directly. I would still raise a request. On the drop down it could have "Previous", and "Last" below the default "No Selection".

I think the property bar has a lot of potential to be more useful. It could reflect available options when running commands. For example FILLET would show your current radius, and allow you to change it. This is similar to features I've seen in microstation. It could also duplicate the options given by promptmenu. Essentially the property bar could be the AutoCAD screen menu + the ability to change settings. Perhaps could call this feature "The Vertical Ribbon" :-).

Regards,

Jason Bourhill

CAD Concepts

Rakesh Rao

Jason,

I agree with you completely. It would be a nice time saver to have this as part of the QuickSelect tool. In fact, AC already has it.

Please go ahead and file an SR about it.

Also, I would really appreciate to see the QuickSelect tool callable from the command line (new QSELECT command), to build a filtered selection set, instead of going via the properties window (that route can still remain). I have filed an SR about it more than a year back and would like to see this in place.

If there are other users supporting this request, please make it known here. I hope Bricsys implements this.

Regards
Rakesh Rao
www.4d-technologies.com

Jason Bourhill

Rakesh,

In terms of your QUICKSELECT from the command line. You can kind of mimic this by using ._SELGRIPS _PRO to build your selection set using properties from the command line. However it doesn't allow you to easily build a compound selection, such as all the objects on a particular layer, of a particular colour. Not sure you could term a command line version as quick . The FILTER command would be useful for people to build more complex selections, command line version would really be SSGET through lisp.

Regards,

Jason Bourhill

CAD Concepts