How do you go about selecting an object?

[Anonymous]

When drawing, in this case a folding door, I have great difficulty selecting the Arrow tool for the door with the mouse. I keep clicking here and there without highlighting it, after many attempts I succeed, how should I proceed? Thank you

[Lingwisyer]

Press TAB to cycle through possible selections. When selecting doors or windows, I find it easiest to select one of the corners of the wall hole or the end of the door leaf.




Ling.

[Barry Kelly]

As Ling said any corner hotspot, and often the end of the door panel has a hotspot - these are the easiest places to select.
In fact any hotspot is good - but you need to know where they are as you can't see them until you select the door.

Also often there is a fill for what would be the sill frame - even if it is not showing.
If you have the 'QuickSelect' magnet active (Spacebar is a shortcut toggle key), you can select that (or any other) fill.

You can also place a marquee around the door, activate the door tool and press CTRL+A.
This will select all doors inside the marquee.
Do it without the marquee and it will select all doors in the plan.

I am having trouble adding an image for some unknown reason.


Barry.

[Barry Kelly]

Barry wrote:
I am having trouble adding an image for some unknown reason.

Let's try in a new post.

Barry.

[Barry Kelly]

Barry wrote:

Barry wrote:
I am having trouble adding an image for some unknown reason.

Let's try in a new post.

Barry.

Nope I still can't post an image sorry.
Will try again later.


Barry.

[Barry Kelly]

Finally here is the image.

Barry.