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8. Hold down the Shift key, and then pick the selected door and swing
in the bathroom.
Be careful to not pick a grip. As you pick the objects, their lines
become solid again and their grips disappear, letting you know they have
been deselected, or removed from the selection set (see Figure 6.27). Be
sure to pick the inside wall lines in the kitchen where they don't coincide
with the stove or counter.
FiGuRE 6.27 The completed selection set after removing the door swing
and back wall line
9. Release the Shift key. Open the Layer drop-down list, and select the
A-FLOR-FIXT layer. The fixtures are now on the A-FLOR-FIXT layer
and are magenta.
10. Press the Esc key to deselect the objects.
The last objects to move onto a new layer are the wall lines. Using conventional
selection methods, it won't be easy to select the wall lines because so many other
objects in the drawing are in the way. However, since the only objects remaining
on layer 0 are the walls for your cabin, you can use the Select Similar command,
which is new to AutoCAD 2011.
Selecting Walls using the Select Similar Command
In the last several exercises you learned how to select objects using both a regu-
lar window and a crossing window. While there are several ways to make regular
and crossing selections (such as when you used the Fence option to trim lines in
Chapter 2, “Learning Basic Commands to Get Started”), these remain as the two