Organizing Objects with Blocks and Groups - Mastering AutoCAD for Mac - page 131

3. Type G ↵ or Group ↵.
4. Type C ↵ to use the Create option.
5. Type Station1 ↵ for the group name and then press ↵ at the Description prompt.
6. At the Select objects: prompt, use a window to select the entire workstation in the
lower-left corner of the plan, and press ↵. You've just created a group.
Now whenever you want to select the workstation, you can click any part of it to select the
entire group. At the same time, you can still modify individual parts of the group—the desk,
partition, and so on—without losing the grouping of objects (see the following section).
Modifying Members of a Group
Next you'll make copies of the original group and modify the copies. Figure 4.20 is a sketch of
the proposed layout that uses the new workstations. Look carefully and you'll see that some of
the workstations in the sketch are missing a few of the standard components that exist in the
Station1 group. One pair of stations has a partition removed; another station has one fewer chair.
FIGURE 4.20
A sketch of the new
office layout
The exercises in this section show you how to complete your drawing to reflect the design
requirements of the sketch.
Start by making a copy of the workstation:
1. Click the Copy icon on the Tool Sets palette, or type CO ↵, and click the Station1 group you
just created. Notice that you can click any part of the station to select the entire station. If
only a single object is selected, press A-B-A and try clicking another part of the group.