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As an architect, you quite often receive drawings from third parties which, in turn they've received from third parties who have generated the work for them. This can sometimes lead to things like replication and objects overlapping each other on a drawing. Now, if we look at this particular drawing, our drawing of our house, there's a door opening right there. If I hover over that, it tells you that there's one polyline there. If I hover over here it tells me that there's one polyline there. Now how would you know if there were, for example, two door openings, one on top of each other, or two lines there, one on top of each other, well, you wouldn't know, would you? That's why SC, Selection Cycling, is extremely useful. It's down here, again, on the Status Bar, Drafting Settings. I'll switch it on. Right-click on it and go to Settings. Now, I'm going to Allow selection cycling. I'm also going to Display the selection cycling List Box and again, make it Cursor-dependent, a bit like the Quick Properties. And I'm also going to show the Title Bar so that we know it is Selection Cycling that's coming up on the screen. So I'll OK that now. Notice you have your own Selection Cycling tab in the Drafting Settings dialog box now. Click on OK. Selection Cycling is now switched on. Now, this is where it gets real clever, because what I need to do now is I need to select here. Now, this is where Selection Cycling will make you so much more productive. As soon as I hover over that polyline I get that little funny blue icon that looks like two rectangles on top of each other. That is telling me that there are two of the same object there. So if I click on that it now tells me I've got two polylines, Line and Hatch. There's loads of objects there that I can cycle in between, but the main one is those two polylines. So what I can do now, I can select polyline 1 at the top there, that selects that one polyline. If I now right-click and go to Move and just pick a point somewhere there and click and drag, you'll see that I did actually have two polylines: one and two. Now I don't want that particular polyline, so I can select it and I can delete it. But, look. When I hover over it there isn't that little blue icon showing that there's one on top of the other, so there's just one polyline there. I can delete that one. Now if I click on the polyline again I still get that icon, though, why is that? That's because I've got lines. There's a line on top of it there. There's a line on top of it there. There's also a Hatch on top of it as well. So all of those will appear when I click on the Selection Cycling. So there's the line, there's the Hatch. Hatch - see them highlight as I move through the list there? So, it's quite clever stuff. Also, though, what I can do is I can work with this a little bit better. Let's hit Escape there. Let's select this line here. So when I go there, look, I've got the Selection Cycling rectangles, the little blue rectangles again. If I click there I've got two lines, one on top of the other. So, if I now click on that line there it selects the one line, right-click, Move, I'll just pick a point and move it upwards, like so. I've got a line there, I've also got a line there, so there were two lines. This one doesn't have the two little blue rectangles, so I click on it and I delete it. Now, I'm deliberately moving that so that you can see it's there. You can obviously just right-click and erase on the Shortcut Menu in situ if you wish. I'm just doing that to show you as an example. Now, if I select the polyline or the line, or even the Hatch Pattern there, notice the Hatch, there's no little rectangles indicating that there's only one. But as soon as I go near that line there's obviously going to be two, isn't there, because when I click there I've got the Hatch as well. The Hatch obviously has a boundary, which is on top of that line. So there's two objects there. If I just hit Escape a couple of times and hover over the rectangle here, the polyline, again, if I click on there I've got a polyline, I've got a line, I've got a Hatch. So you can see there's three objects there. There's that line, polyline and Hatch; they're all coincidental. The line is on top of the polyline, the polylines there, the Hatch boundary is also on top of that line and on top of that polyline. So, you can see that that Selection Cycling is extremely useful when you need it, especially when you're interrogating third party drawings that you might need for your architectural design.