Use shift to add to selection
Saturday, March 18, 2006
A few weeks ago a friend and old coworker from Portugal asked me how to turn the entity selection in AutoCAD back the default. The purpose of this is so you don’t need to press the shift key to select a group of AutoCAD entities (which is very annoying!).
At the time I just emailed him the solution, but since I have received more requests related to the same problem I decided to post it today on my blog.
To control the entities selection mode in AutoCAD you must turn on or off the system variable named PICKADD. So when you use the shift key to add new objects to your selection the PICKADD system variable is set to 0 (off).
In other words, you can activate (or deactivate) the use shift to add to selection mode by setting the PICKADD system variable to on (1) or off (0).
At the time I just emailed him the solution, but since I have received more requests related to the same problem I decided to post it today on my blog.
To control the entities selection mode in AutoCAD you must turn on or off the system variable named PICKADD. So when you use the shift key to add new objects to your selection the PICKADD system variable is set to 0 (off).
In other words, you can activate (or deactivate) the use shift to add to selection mode by setting the PICKADD system variable to on (1) or off (0).
