select by attribute for elements within a fence

I have a drawings consiting of rectangles and lines and text elements.
If I want to select a few rectangles among all the rectangles using
fence How can I do it. When I use select command it also selects lines
and text within the fence. But I want only rectangles to be selected.
Can any one help in this regard, I have also used by attributes but it
will select all rectangles in the entire drawing which is again I dont
want.

 

If you use the "arrow tool" it should select only individual elements.

Are your geometry grouped? in cells etc?
Try info-tool on them.

You may read in to http://www.bentley.com/en-US/Community/Discussion+Groups/
and post a question in apropriate group. Perhaps a small sample.

 

Go to Select By Attributes.
Pick 'Shape' from the 'Type' list.
In the 'Mode' section pick 'Location' from the second option button.
Click the 'Execute' button.

Now when you use the Select command and drag a rectangle around a bunch
of elements it will only find the Shapes.

Dan