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 When you select some objects using the mouse, and if the yellow command line was kept visible during the selection, then the text you write inside the command line would be used to further filter the selection set When you select some objects using the mouse, and if the yellow command line was kept visible during the selection, then the text you write inside the command line would be used to further filter the selection set
  
-Say you had given the ARDELA property //has(@,"granite").// to a set of objets (which may be to reflect the fact that the particular objects has granite finish) In such a case, if you typed the word //granite// in the command-line would make sure only those objects which has granite in the selection set actually is selected+Say you had given the ARDELA property //has(@,"granite").// to a set of objects (which may be to reflect the fact that the particular objects has granite finish) In such a case, if you typed the word //granite// in the command-line would make sure only those objects which has granite in the selection set actually is selected
  
 What if you wanted the opposite? -- select only those objects that don't have //granite//? In such a case, put the tilde sign before the word thus //~granite// What if you wanted the opposite? -- select only those objects that don't have //granite//? In such a case, put the tilde sign before the word thus //~granite//
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 //["granite","~marble"]// //["granite","~marble"]//
  
- The above would select those objects which have granite, but not the ones that have marble+ The above would select those objects which have granite, but not the ones that have marble. 
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 +Now here is one more power trick:  The filter works even if the filter word is in a comment in the ARDELA code (Comments are written usually like C or C++ comments i.e. in this format:  /* //this is a comment//  */ This means, you could actually not write ANY ARDELA, but make such filter comments and use those filters to cherry pick exactly what you want in the selection set!
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