Select By Attributes

Opens the Select By Attributes dialog box, which is used to select elements based on specified criteria.

Select elements (in a sense, extend the Element Selection).
Locate elements.
Filter the elements that are displayed.

Selection criteria can be saved in separate files for reuse.


Select By Attributes dialog box

Key-in: MDL LOAD SELECTBY DIALOG

For criteria settings to be effective, the third unlabeled option menu under Mode must be set to On.

When you close the Select By dialog box, an alert box displays:

Click OK to continue to apply the Select By settings.
Click Cancel to unload the “selectby.ma” MDL application.

Key-ins must be activated by the key-in SELECTBY EXECUTE. SELECTBY must be loaded (MDL LOAD SELECTBY) and the type cleared by keying in SELECTBY TYPE NONE.