Creating Your First Drawing - Mastering AutoCAD for Mac - page 43

3. After making your selections, you may decide to deselect some items. Press F-Z on the
keyboard. Notice that one line is no longer highlighted. When you press F-Z, objects are
deselected, one at a time, in reverse order of selection.
4. You can deselect objects in another way. A-click (or A-tap if you use a trackpad) on
the remaining highlighted line. It reverts to a solid line, showing you that it's no longer
selected for editing.
FIGURE 2.17
Selecting the lines
of the door and
seeing them high-
lighted
5. By now, you've deselected both lines. Let's try another method for selecting groups of
objects. To select objects with a window selection, type W ↵. The cursor changes to a Point
Selection cursor, and the prompt changes to
Specify first corner:
6. Click and drag a point below and to the left of the rectangle representing the door.
Trackpad users should double-tap and drag. As you move your cursor across the screen,
a selection window appears and stretches across the drawing area. Also notice that the
window has a blue tint.
7. After the selection window completely encloses the door but not the arc, release the
mouse button to highlight the entire door. Trackpad users can simply move your finger
from the trackpad. This window selects only objects that are completely enclosed by the
window, as shown in Figure 2.18.
Don't confuse the selection window you're creating here with the zoom window you
used in Chapter 1, which defines an area of the drawing you want to enlarge. Remember
that the Window option works differently under the Zoom command than it does for
other editing commands.