Modifying Members of a Group

Modifying Members of a Group
Next, you’ll make copies of the original group and modify the copies. Figure 4.10 is a sketch of the
proposed layout that uses the new workstations. Look carefully, and you’ll see that some of the workstations
in the sketch are missing a few of the standard components that exist in the Station1 group.
One pair of stations has a partition removed; another station has no desk.
The exercises in this section show you how to complete your drawing to reflect the design
requirements of the sketch.



Start by making a copy of the workstation:
1. Click Copy on the Modify toolbar, or type Co↵, and click the Station1 group you just created.
Notice that you can click any part of the station to select the entire station. If only a single
object is selected, press Shift+Ctrl+A and try clicking another part of the group.
2. Press ↵ to finish your selection.
3. At the Specify base point or [Displacement] : prompt, enter @↵.
Then, enter @8´2˝<90>

4. Turn on Ortho mode, and pick a point directly to the right of the hot grip you picked in step 2. The workstation is mirrored to a new orientation. 5. Press the Esc key twice to clear the grip selection. Also, turn off Ortho mode. Now that you’ve got the workstations laid out, you need to remove some of the partitions between the new workstations. If you had used blocks for the workstations, you would first need to explode the workstations that have partitions you want to edit. Groups, however, let you make changes without undoing their grouping. Use these steps to remove the partitions: 1. At the Command prompt, press Shift+Ctrl+A. You should see the message in
the command line. If you see the message instead, press Shift+Ctrl+A until you
see . This turns off groupings so you can select and edit individual objects
within a group.
2. Using a window, erase the short partition that divides the two copies of the workstations, as
shown in Figure 4.12.



3. Press Shift+Ctrl+A again to turn groupings back on.
4. To check your workstations, click one of them to see whether all its components are highlighted
together.
TIP Pickstyle is a system variable that controls how groups are selected. See Appendix C for more
information about Pickstyle and other system variables.