topic Re: Selecting an entire layer. in Modeling

Selecting an entire layer.

Anonymous — Tue, 23 May 2023 12:57:46 GMT

Any way you can select an entire layer?

For example, instead of selecting (lets say the walls tab) and using a simple 'control A' to select all the walls.. is there any way you can select your layer that may consist of multiple different objects such as a layer consisting of both lines and fills or walls and roofs and so on.

I ask this because more often than not I usually end up using a lot of lines and fills to edit my elevations. Doing this, I will put all my lines that I use to touch up my roof, for example, on one layer. And when I go into test printing to check line weights it'd be nice if there was an easier way to select all my roof lines to change the line weight instead of reselecting each line 1 by 1.

Thank you in advance!!

Re: Selecting an entire layer.

Anonymous — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 13:41:25 GMT

goto edit>find and select>all types>more choices>select the arrow in the pen colour box and select layers, you can then choose the layer you want.

Re: Selecting an entire layer.

Anonymous — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 13:49:00 GMT

splitlid wrote:
goto edit>find and select>all types>more choices>select the arrow in the pen colour box and select layers, you can then choose the layer you want.

Beautiful.. thanks a ton

Re: Selecting an entire layer.

Laura Yanoviak — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 15:45:44 GMT

You can also use the Quick Layers Palette to isolate one or more Layers. Window > Palettes > Quick Layers OR select an element on the desired Layer(s) and go to Document > Layers > Layer Extras > Hide Others.

Re: Selecting an entire layer.

daviiiiidave — Mon, 13 Nov 2017 08:48:59 GMT

Hey i got a question for this topic.

Is there a possbility to bind some shortcut for "Select Objects on Layer" ?
I cant find anything in shortcut menu

F&S is a good way but its slow in workflow. I wanna select an Object in 3D hit a combo and it should select all objects in the layer.

Re: Selecting an entire layer.

Barry Kelly — Mon, 13 Nov 2017 09:29:18 GMT

Find & Select is the only way.
Remember you can store the criteria for later use and you can export/import stored criteria to other files as well.

Other than the Quick options method of hiding all other layers and then select all (CTRL+A)

Barry.

Re: Selecting an entire layer.

Steve Jepson — Mon, 20 Nov 2017 09:10:57 GMT

daviiiiidave wrote:
... I wanna select an Object in 3D hit a combo and it should select all objects in the layer.

You can - if - you have made a Layer Combination with the Layers the Objects are on. Otherwise, you can select the Object icon in the Toolbar and use Ctrl-A, to select All Objects. Ctrl-A works like this for selecting all of anything you select in the Toolbar. If you don't want to use the Ctrl-A shortcut, you can Select the Objects icon (for example) in the Toolbar then Edit, and Select All Objects from the pop-up Edit menu.

Re: Selecting an entire layer.

Anonymous — Fri, 13 Mar 2020 14:06:54 GMT

I am trying to select an entire layer in the newest AC 23 and I am not able to do it....It's a .dwg Autocad file that I am working on it in AC23.

Re: Selecting an entire layer.

Laszlo Nagy — Sat, 14 Mar 2020 00:03:30 GMT

anto_bg wrote:
I am trying to select an entire layer in the newest AC 23 and I am not able to do it....It's a .dwg Autocad file that I am working on it in AC23.

Did you place the DWG file as a Drawing? Or did you use the XREF functionality?
If you placed it as a Drawing then you will not be able to select individual elements within the Drawing, only the Drawing as a whole. You would have to explode the Drawing to then be able to select individual elements from the DWG file.

Re: Selecting an entire layer.

Anonymous — Mon, 16 Mar 2020 09:06:58 GMT

It's not a drawing.

Re: Selecting an entire layer.

Barry Kelly — Mon, 16 Mar 2020 09:30:08 GMT

anto_bg wrote:
It's not a drawing.

So it is a DWG file that you have converted to an Archicad PLN.
If that is the case the above methods as explained in the previous posts are how you select all elements in a layer.
Essentially use the Find & Select palette and set two criteria for 'Element type is ALL types' and 'Layer name is ???'.
Then you click the '+' button and all elements in the layer you listed in the criteria will be selected.

Barry.

Re: Selecting an entire layer.

Anonymous — Mon, 16 Mar 2020 09:37:40 GMT

When I enter Element is All Types, then there is NO Layer option in the drop-down menu....

Re: Selecting an entire layer.

Anonymous — Mon, 16 Mar 2020 14:12:48 GMT

I figured it out. Layer is under Add > Parameters and Properties > Model View > Layer

Re: Selecting an entire layer.

Barry Kelly — Mon, 16 Mar 2020 15:05:10 GMT

anto_bg wrote:
I figured it out. Layer is under Add > Parameters and Properties > Model View > Layer

Yes, you add as many criteria as you need to select the elements you want.
When you ADD a criteria, there is a search box where you can type key words (like layer) and it will list all the relevant options you can choose from.
It saves you manually searching through the list.

Barry.