"Select":
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"Select": |
Whatever modification you may decide to make upon any drawn object (e.g. move, delete, copy, hide/show, make transformations, edit individual properties, set style, etc.), you will first need to select it so that the focus is drawn on it.
1.Click the "Select" button. An edit bar with the following controls appears:
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"Select with Intersect" If this mode is enabled, all the objects intersecting with the selection area are selected additionally. When the option is off, you have to fully enclose all the objects you want in the bounding box in order to select them. |
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"Select Outside Objects" If this mode is enabled, all the objects outside the selection area are selected. |
2.Click an object to select it or draw a box to select multiple objects at a time.
3.Keep the Ctrl key pressed to add more objects to the selection.
Note: When you hover with the mouse over an object with the Select mode enabled, the system highlights this object, helping you to detect when the mouse pointer is exactly over the object. Clicking it will select it. By default, a selected object will turn pink.
Note: To select several objects or dimensions one after the other, keep the "Ctrl" key pressed down.
When you have several objects selected, hold down the "Ctrl" key and click an object to deselect it.
To deselect all but one object of a group of objects, hold down the "Shift" key and click the object that is to remain selected.
Overlapping objects
It may happen that objects overlap or are so close on the screen that you cannot tell them apart. When you move the mouse pointer over two or more objects, the program will first highlight the one that is nearest to the cursor and shortly after it will display the "Multiple objects" indicator next to the mouse cursor.
This means that the system cannot "decide" which of the objects you want to select or highlight: When you click the same point, the system will display a list of all overlapping or closely situated objects/dimensions "under" the mouse pointer so that you can choose one of them.
Note: The list of overlapping or closely situated objects/dimensions contains an ID number of the objects/dimensions. An ID number is a unique identification number of the object, generated by the system on object creation.
Example:
For non-overlapping objects which are visually too close on the screen, use the "Zoom in" function (F2) to scale up the view.
Selecting/Deselecting All Objects in the Active Drawing
Right-click anywhere on the canvas and click "Select > Select All" from the context menu that pops up or press Ctrl+A to select all objects.
Note: The above procedure does not select/deselect dimensions. To select all dimensions, go to the "Select by Attributes" mode.
Back to Controls in the "Select" Mode.
Back to Tool Bar in the "Layout" tab.
