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OK, let's have a look now at the Quick Select Command in AutoCAD. Again, it's another underrated and underused command. It's available on the Utilities Panel here in the Home tab and it's this Icon here, Quick Select. Now before I select any objects using the Quick Select Command you can see I've got lots of Blocks now in this drawing. That's to represent the landscaping in the grounds of this house that we are gradually designing here. You notice we have some sprinklers over here. We also have angled sprinklers here for the garden, and you'll notice we have shrubs, some groups of trees, and a tree here as well. Now they're all AutoCAD Blocks, but I don't know their names. But I do know is they're all on Layer 0, so if I click here on this group of trees you can see there the Layer is zero. If I click on any of the other objects there, like a shrub, again, it's on Layer 0. I want to get those off of Layer 0 and onto their own Layers, but what I want to do is rather than click on all of them individually what I want to do is select them by grouping them using Quick Select. So run Quick Select and what we'll do, we'll apply it to the Entire drawing, but the Object Type we want is a Block Reference, and the good thing is if I scroll down this list I can actually find blocks of a specific name. So if I go: Entire drawing, Block Reference, Name, Equals, if I click on the down arrow here, you can see now there are all my blocks that are in the drawing at the moment. So if I go for Shrub here, what it'll now do is it'll include in the new selection set all the Block References called Shrub. If I click on OK now it selects all the Shrubs. I now click on my Layer Pull-down, find my Shrubs Layer, which is here, that dark green color, hit Escape to deselect, then they're all on their own dark green Layer. What I have here is a group of trees. So let's do Quick Select again. Same process: Entire drawing, Object Type, Block Reference, scroll down the list, Name, Equals. And I've got that clump of trees, or bushes in plan. That's the one I need to use, so I OK it, there they are. If I click on the Layer Pull-down now, there are Trees, they're now on their own Trees Layer. I'm going to keep doing this now until everything is set up. So, let's look at these sprinklers over here. Same again: Quick Select, Entire drawing, Object Type, I go Block Reference in this case, scroll down, Name, Equals, look down the list and I've got a sprinkler head there, but it's not that one, it's this one, Sprinkler. If I click on OK now the four sprinklers are selected, so again, Layer Pull-down, put them on the appropriate Layer, Sprinklers in the drawing there, that blue Layer, hit Escape to deselect, they're on their own Layer. I've got two more to do now. The 90 degree sprinkler head, and the tree here, so it's now just a process of elimination. Quick Select, Object Type, Block Reference, and scroll down the list and find Name, Equals, and we'll go for the Sprinkler Head there, 90 degrees, that one there. If I click on OK now, there's my Sprinkler Heads at 90 degrees, click on the Layer Pull-down, they go on the Sprinkler Layer as well, this one here. Hit Escape to deselect. They're on their own Layer now. Now, the last one is this tree here. Now we know it's on Layer 0. We can also use Quick Select to select objects on a specific Layer. So if I go to Quick Select again; Object Type, Multiple, but we know we've only got the one object on Layer 0, so if I click Layer equals and then select the Layer here, zero, and then click on OK, it's the only object left on Layer 0. So what I can do now is I can again change the Layer, set it to Trees like the other one, and that's now on it's own Layer like so. So you can see there how quick Quick Select actually is. It's a very useful tool for grouping objects together with similar properties, whether it be Layers, Block Names, Length, Area, Size, and so on. So always try and use Quick Select. It's a very underrated command.