This is a good tip to ask for an improvement in the attributes area.
I would vote for your idea.
Please elaborate some more and place it in the "Whishlist" item section.
Thanks,
Miguel
Miguel J. Palaoro • Porto Alegre • Brasil
[DataCAD user since V.4 • Languages: English & Português • Scale Type/Unit: Meter-ABNT]
Objects can be modified through selection sets. You have to identify the elements in the selection set first, which can be done with a mask to grab by entity, color, linetype, or weight.
From the edit menu,
click Sel.Sets,
click AddtoSet,
click SelSet1 (you can create up to 8 sets)
select what you want to add to the set vis entity, group, area, fence, or mask
mask had the subset choices listed above
If changing everything on a layer, why not pick that layer and turn layer search off? Or am I misunderstanding the question?