Work with Selections

Now to the most important part. Once you have made your selection what can you do with it?

Currently these functions are multiple select enabled, Trim, Extend, Transform, Copy, Delete and Change Properties. They are available in a popup menu that will be visible if you right click in the canvas. To make the Trim/Extend choices appear on the menu you have to right click close to a contour element.

The Trim/Extend functions in this menu will allow you to trim/extend many contours to the same entity. Delete/Transform/Copy will of course delete/transform/copy all currently selected elements. For a detailed instruction on how to use the new trim and extend function please see the following sections.

The Change Properties function will allow you to change properties like line type, color, text height Please note that if you have an advanced filter set, the functions will operate on the list of filtered elements, not the selected elements.

The Copy function allows the user to define the target owner for the copies, in case the selection contains elements below view level.

The system will then ask the user to indicate the target owner for those elements:

• If a target owner is indicated by the user, each element in the selection will then be copied below the appropriate level in that owner structure.

• By clicking Operation Complete, the same owner will be used. Each element will then be copied within the same owner.

• By clicking Options, a new owner view will be created. Each element will then be copied below the appropriate level in that owner structure.

A check for model information within the selection is done in order to optionally exclude this information from being copied.

The drafting default keyword MODEL_SUBPICTURE_2DREGROUP_ALLOW is used to decide if model information should be copied or not.

Also note that what appears in this right-click menu depends on:

• Which the closest picture element is. If it is a text the Edit Text Properties menu choices will be available. If it is a contour then Extend and Trim is also in the menu.

  Note: Please note that the Text Properties menu is NOT multi-select enabled, it only operates on the indicated text.

• If multi-select is active or not. If active then you will always have Transform, Copy, Delete and Change Properties.

• Which application you are running. Running Hull Design for instance may result in additional menu choices for specific model types identified as closest entity in the drawing.