Searching Drawing Component


You can search drawing components containing a certain text in the drawing component name from drawing components on the drawing.

Searching Drawing Component

  1. Point [Search and Replace] on [Edit] menu, and click [Search Component].
    Search and Replace Window will be displayed.
  2. Input a string to be searched in [Search drawing component] box, or select a drawing component from the list.
  3. Click [Search prev], [Search next], or [Search all].
    A drawing component containing the search string in the drawing component name will be selected, and the message will be displayed on the status bar.
    Search prev
    Search the drawing component immediately before the previously searched drawing component.
    Search next
    Search the drawing component immediately after the previously searched drawing component.
    Search all
    Search all drawing components in the search range.

Search Options

[Search range]
Select [Current paper or part drawing] to search a drawing component on paper or part drawing currently displayed on Drawing Window, or in the drawing component edit screen.
Select [All papers and part drawings] to search drawing components on all papers and part drawings in a file.

[Include Part Drawing Layout]
Turn it on to search drawing components on part drawing layout when searching on paper.

[Case-sensitive]
Turn it on to search while distinguishing upper/lower-case letters.

[Search for whole words only]
Turn it on to search only drawing components having a drawing component name completely matching the input string.

[Distinguish half- and wide-width characters]
Turn it on to search while distinguishing 1-digit and 2-digit characters.

Supplemental
Hidden drawing components are out of targets for searching.

Related topics