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If you can't select some parts of your drawing, the solution will most likely be found in either the Selection Filter (SF) or Edit Layers (EL) routines.

The Selection Filter can cause items to be omitted when you try to select them using Select by Polygon, Select All, etc. For example, if Current Color is enabled (checked), only elements in the current color will be selected. If Lines is not enabled, lines will not be selected, etc. Display the Selection Filter by typing SF and check which filters are enabled. If you wish to select everything on your drawing, the Allow All filter should be enabled and the Current Color, Current LineType, and Current Layer filters should be disabled.

If a drawing layer is locked, you won't be able to select anything on it. Display the Edit Layers dialog box by typing EL and look for the letter L to the left of the sample linestyle. If an L appears in any row, that layer is locked. For help unlocking a layer, refer to the sub-section Editing a Single Layer in the Drawing Reference manual.

Another reason you may not be able to select drawing entities could be that the (operate on) Current Layer Only option is enabled in the Edit Layers dialog box. When this option is enabled, you can only select items which are actually drawn on the Current Layer. If you wish to select items on other layers, type EL to display the Edit Layers dialog box and enable the (operate on) All Unlocked Layers option instead.  

NOTE:  If the conditions described above do not apply, you may have a corrupt drawing database.  Select New Job and perform a Fix Drawing (FD) operation.

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