Grouping objects

When you group two or more objects, they are treated as a single unit. This feature lets you apply the same formatting and other properties to all objects within the group at the same time. In addition, grouping helps prevent accidental changes to the position of an object in relation to other objects. You can also create nested groups by grouping together existing groups.

Single objects retain their attributes when they are grouped.

You can add objects to or remove objects from a group, and you can delete objects that are members of a group. You can also edit a single object in a group without ungrouping the objects. If you want to edit multiple objects in a group at the same time, you must first ungroup the objects. If a group contains nested groups, you can ungroup all objects in the nested groups simultaneously.

To group objects

2 .	Click Object Group Group objects.

You can create a nested group by selecting two or more groups of objects and clicking Object Group Group objects.

The status bar indicates that a group of objects is selected.

You can select objects from different layers and group them; however, once grouped, the objects will reside on the same layer, based on the last selected object.

You can also group objects by dragging an object’s name in the Object manager docker over the name of another object.

To add an object to a group

If the Object manager docker is not open, click Window Object manager.

To remove an object from a group

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To delete an object that’s in a group, select the object in the object list and click Edit Delete.

If the Object manager docker is not open, click Window Object manager.

You can select an object within a group by holding Ctrl and clicking the object. You can then press Delete to delete the object from the drawing.

To edit a single object in a group

1 .	Click the Pick tool .

You can also select a single object in a group by clicking the name of the object in the Object manager docker. To access the Object manager docker, click Window Object manager.

To ungroup objects

2 .	Click Object Group, and click one of the following commands:

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