Using QSelect in ZWCAD to Filter Selection Sets

Published: 20th October 2010
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Have you ever find worked with a big group of entities in complex drawings that contain text and a bunch of text styles that are scaled in metric units? As a result, the text appears tiny compared with the rest of the drawing.

Below is a screen grab of a Hobbing System in a mechanical drawing. The text is hidden behind the cyclonical object as part of the symbol. I would rather that the text be big enough to at least extend a bit beyond the cyclonical object, so that it is obvious that it is there. Some of the text consists of attributes, which are so small that they appear as dots.

To solve this problem, would you reinsert and redefine each of the "dots" manually, one by one? Although this method would work, I have found something far more efficient, something that is already built into ZWCAD.




Well, how could we go about carefully selecting the attribute objects using the Qselect command in ZWCAD? By using the trick of filtering.


Object Type; (2) choose "Tag" in the Properties category; (3) in the Operations list, choose "Wildcard Match"; and (4) enter '*' as the "wildcard" character in the Value field to select all attributes text containing that text. (In the Value field, you can enter any kind of text and wildcard combination, such '*DOT' to select all text that end with the letters "DOT".) Click OK to apply the filtered selection.




There it is. It worked really work very well for me!

About ZWCAD
As the flagship product of ZWCAD Software Co., Ltd., ZWCAD is powerful CAD software, which is highly compatible with DWG file format. ZWCAD meets the needs of broad-based target groups of 2D/3D design industry, including architecture, engineering, construction, mechanics, manufacturing, and electronics. So far, it has become the leading brand in China's CAD industry and now competes successfully in over 80 other countries, with more than 180,000 users throughout the world. For more information, please visit http://www.zwcad.org/

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