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Selection of objects with a mouse |
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Perform the following actions to select objects with a mouse.
1.Move the cursor to the required object so that the cursor "catcher" capture the object.
2.Click the left mouse button. The object will change the color – it will be rendered with the color set for selected objects (this color can be set, see section Edit).
To undo object selection, click the left mouse button in any place outside the object, or press <Esc>key. Selection will be undone – the object will be rendered in its regular color.
If multiple objects need to be selected, press <Shift> or <Ctrl> key and keep it pressed, clicking the left mouse button at the required objects. At the end of selection, release <Shift> (<Ctrl>) key.
You can select multiple objects using another method – with the embracing or intersecting marquee. Place the cursor on a free space (so that it doesn’t grasp any objects), click the left-hand mouse button and move the cursor keeping the button pressed. On the screen, the marquee following the cursor will be displayed.
•When you move the cursor from left to right, an enclosing marquee is formed. It is displayed in a solid line and is filled with blue color. After releasing the mouse button, only the objects that got fully into the marquee will be selected.
•When you move the cursor from right to left, a cutting marquee is formed. It is displayed in dashed line and is filled with light-green color. After releasing the mouse button, only the objects that got fully or partly into the marquee will be selected (i.e. Intersected with the marquee).
To invert selection, specify objects separately or with a marquee, keeping <Ctrl>key pressed.
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You can invert highlighting specific objects also with <Shift>key. Group indication of objects with <Shift> key pressed ads them to the highlighted objects. |
Sometimes, objects which need to be selected are positioned closely to one another or are even overlaid one upon another. At the same time it is difficult (and sometimes impossible at all) to specify one of them precisely with a cursor.
To select any of the closely placed objects (including those overlaid one upon another), use the Picking Over command (see Section Picking Over).
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