Creating Your First Drawing - Mastering AutoCAD for Mac - page 50

3. At the Specify base point or [Displacement] <Displacement>: prompt, pick any
point on the screen. The following prompt appears:

Specify second point or
<use first point as displacement>:

4. Type @1<0 ↵. Metric users should type @3<0 ↵. The arc moves to a new location 1 unit (3
units for metric users) to the right.

In this exercise, you picked the arc before issuing the Move command. Then, when you
clicked the Move tool, you didn't see the Select objects: prompt. Instead, AutoCAD assumed
you wanted to move the arc that you selected and went directly to the Specify base point or
[Displacement] <Displacement>: prompt.

U S I N G A U T O S E L E C T
Next you'll move the rest of the door in the same direction by using the Autoselect feature:

1. Click and drag (or double-tap and drag) from a point just above and to the left of the rect-
angle representing the door. Be sure not to pick the door itself. A selection window appears
that you can drag across the screen as you move the cursor. If you move the cursor to the
left of the last point selected, the window outline appears dotted with a green tint inside
the window (see the first image in Figure 2.23). If you move the cursor to the right of that
point, the outline appears solid with a blue tint inside (see the second image in Figure 2.23).

2. While still holding the mouse button, move the cursor to a point below and to the right of
the door so that the door is completely enclosed by the window but not the arc, as shown
in the second image in Figure 2.23.

FIGURE 2.23
The dotted win-
dow (first image)
indicates a cross-
ing selection; the
solid window (sec-
ond image) indi-
cates a standard
selection window.

Crossing
window

Standard
window