how to select geometry by line type?

[3dworks]

i got some DWG's from a client which makes very poor use of layers and i need to clean up the data to get decent reference geometry. i wonder why i can't find the line style  in the 'select by criteria' dialog. be it by some plugin or by native support, i seem to remember that in older versions of FZ we had this functionality. anyone with a script or idea how to do that?

 

for future versions: best would be a context menu 'find similar' which pops up on selected geometry and contains a checkbox to deseleect criteria which does not need to be filtered.

 

cheers

 

markus

[etroxel]

+1

 

This is something I use in Illustrator all the time. Maybe there's a way to use it to reassign stuff before sending the drawing to formZ, or do it in CAD first. 

[Tech]

Hi Markus and Evan, 

 

Thanks for the suggestion, we will see if something like that can be added in the future.  

 

If the lines you are trying to select from the imported DWG are on specific layers, you could right click on the layer and choose Select All Objects On Layer

[3dworks]

yes, actually loading DWG's into illustrator is possible, and filtering out these is also straightforward, but as a general workflow it's just too complex. i expect FZ9 having all those issues resolved.

 

i don't understand why autodessys doesn't care to bring all these older useful scripts into FZ lab for FZ 8+. the lab itself seems to be pretty dead as a portal for extensions.

 

the plugin we are talking about in this specific case was "cmnd_select_similar.fsb" EDIT: but it didn't permit to select line style as well...