You can retrieve general information from a drawing including identifying information and the number of objects that it contains. 

There are types of information stored in a drawing that are not specific to objects within the drawing, but provide useful information to help you understand the behavior of the drawing, the settings of system variables, the number of objects, descriptive information, and so on. 


Obtain General Drawing Information

You can retrieve general information about the drawing file and its settings. This information includes the following:

■ Custom descriptive information about the drawing (DWGPROPS) 

■ General drawing settings (STATUS) 

■ Amount of time spent in the drawing (TIME)

This information can help you document a drawing, displays a variety of drawing settings such as the total number of objects in the drawing and the amount of free space on your disk drive, and the total amount of time spent in the drawing file.


Quick Reference

Commands 

DWGPROPS 

Sets and displays the file properties of the current drawing.

SETVAR 

Lists or changes the values of system variables.

STATUS 

Displays drawing statistics, modes, and extents.

TIME 

Displays the date and time statistics of a drawing. 

Count/Select Objects Within a Drawing

You can count/select objects within a drawing using the QSELECT command. 

The QSELECT command displays the Quick Select dialog box, which allows you to create a selection set based on the filtering criteria. You can filter selection sets by property such as color or linetype, and by object type. Creating a selection set based on the filtering criteria in the Quick Select dialog box, allows you to count specified types of objects within a drawing. 

To count specified types of objects in a drawing

1 Click Home tab ➤ Utilities panel ➤ Quick Select.     

2 In the Quick Select dialog box, do one of the following: 

■ In the Apply To List, select Entire Drawing. 

■ Click the Select Objects button to select a group of objects. Press ENTER. In the Apply To list, select Current selection. 

3 In the Object Type list, select the type of object you want to count. 

4 In the Properties list, select a property that belongs to the type of objects you want to count. 

5 In the Operator list, select = Equals. 

6 In the Value list, select the property value of the type of objects you want to count. 

7 Click OK.

The number of objects displays at the command prompt

  Menu: Tools ➤ Quick Select

   Command entry: QSELECT

Shortcut menu: End any active commands, right-click in the drawing area, and choose Quick Select.


Quick Reference

Commands

QSELECT

Creates a selection set based on filtering criteria.