Multiple Select Options

The multiple select option menu will be activated by Ctrl key and right clicking will activate the popup menu that looks like below:

The Box function will allow you to select elements within a given box and the Polygon function will let you select all elements within a polygon.

Inside and Crossing are options to the area selection. If Inside is checked, elements completely inside the area will be selected. If Inside is NOT checked, elements completely outside the area will be selected. If Crossed is checked also elements crossing the area boundary will qualify for selection, that means, in addition the ones inside or outside.

Among the selection options there are also two types of filters. The first filter is represented by the Comp, Subview, View, Contour, Text and Symbol options. With Comp, Subview and View you decide on what level you want to indicate subpictures. With Contour, Text, Symbol you select what type of geometry you want to identify. Ticking these will only have effect when you have no subpicture level selected at all, that means, you select geometric entities directly.

The second filter is available as the popup menu choice Advanced filter…. This is an additional filter that will be applied to the selected elements. The filter is one or several properties like color, line type, font, text height, layer When you set the Advanced filter... it means that you have two lists of elements, the selected elements and the filtered elements. The filtered elements are the result you get when scanning the selected elements to find the ones that match the advanced filter.

Selecting Advanced filter… opens the below dialog.

If you select more than one property it means that an element must match all the selected properties to be targeted.

Examples

1. You have selected two subviews and you have set the advanced filter to color Red and line type Dashed. The filtered elements will be all contours in these two subviews that are both red and dashed.

2. You have selected one view and the advanced filter is ‘Layer=200’. Assuming that the view has the elements seen in the figure below.

The list of filtered elements will be subview B1 and component C1.

Note: That the search will stop on the highest level, that means, once a matching element is found the subordinate elements will not be searched.

There are two menu choices on the Multiple Select popup menu that are related to the selected/filtered elements. Show selected elements and Show filtered elements. These two options let you select which list of elements you want to be highlighted on the canvas. The selected elements or the filtered elements. By default the selected elements are highlighted.

Note: That if you have an Advanced filter... set, all operations you apply to your selected elements will affect the filtered elements and not the selected ones.

The Box functions will allow you to select elements within a given box and the Polygon function will let you select all elements within a polygon. Inside and Crossing are options to the area selection. If Inside is checked, elements completely inside the area will be selected. If Inside is not checked, elements completely outside the area will be selected. If Crossed is checked also elements crossing the area boundary will qualify for selection, that means, in addition to the ones inside or outside.

Note: Information belonging to Drawing Reference Views will not be possible to add to the selection list.