Using Layers to Organize Your Drawing - AutoCAD 2011 and AutoCAD LT 2011: No Experience Required - page 271

4. Open the Layer drop-down list, and select the A-DOOR layer.
5. Press Esc to deselect the objects and remove the grips. Then use
the Zoom Extents tool found by selecting the View tab ➢ Navigate
panel ➢ Zoom Extents tool from the zoom fly-out menu, or you can
double-click the middle-button/scroll wheel on your mouse. You have
a full view of the floor plan where each of the doors are red and are
found on the A-DOOR layer.
The next task is to move the kitchen and bathroom counters and fixtures and
the hot tub onto the A-FLOR-FIXT layer. In doing this, you'll learn how to dese-
lect some objects from a group of selected objects.
Selecting the Kitchen and Bathroom Fixtures
Sometimes it's more efficient to select more objects than you want and then dese-
lect those you don't want. You'll see how this is done when you select the kitchen
and bathroom fixtures:
1. Make sure 06A-FPLAY4.dwg is open.
2. To start a crossing window, pick a point in the kitchen area just below
and to the right of the refrigerator but above the back door.
3. Move the cursor to the top left and up until the upper-left corner of
the crossing window is to the left of the left edge of the counter and
inside the back wall, as shown in the top left of Figure 6.26.
When you have it correct, click that point. The entire kitchen
counter area and fixtures are selected.
4. Move down to the bathroom, and pick a point inside the shower near
the bottom-right corner, being careful not to touch any lines with the
crosshair cursor.
5. Move the crosshair cursor up and to the left until the lower-left corner
of the crossing window is in the middle of the sink (see the top right
of Figure 6.26). When you have it positioned this way, click that point.
All the bathroom fixtures, except the mirror, are selected.
6. From left to right, drag a regular window that encompasses the mir-
ror, as shown in the bottom of Figure 6.26. It doesn't matter if the
selection window surrounds objects that are already selected.
7. To complete the selection set, drag a crossing selection window that
crosses both of the hot tub polylines that encroach into the living room.