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Selecting One or More Geometries

Select a geometry to manipulate it

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Written by Holly Conrad Smith
Updated over 2 months ago

To select a geometry, simply click it.

Once a geometry is selected, you can review its properties in the properties palette.

To deselect a geometry, tap esc.

Multi-Select

You can also select multiple Geometries.

Add to selection

Hold ctrl and click to add more geometries to the selection.

Hold ctrl + click on a selected geometry to remove it from the selection.

Marquee

Hold shift and drag to marquee select multiple geometries at once

  • Drag bottom right to top left - select anything in path

  • Drag to left to bottom right - select anything fully contained in bounding box

Hold ctrl + shift to add to the selection

Lasso

Use the shift + O hotkey to enter the lasso command

Freehand draw a boundary around the geometry you want to select.

Anything that intersects with the lasso boundary or is fully contained is included in the selection.

X-Ray

Use xray click to select geometries behind other objects.

Use ctrl + click to temporarily enable x ray mode.

Click on the map where multiple geometries overlap.

Select the geometry you want from the list.

Isolate

Isolate every touching feature on the same level (base height)

Select one or more geometries

Use the h hotkey

Any geometries that touch the selection are isolated.

Click to edit as usual.

Use h to exit isolate mode.

Right-Click Pet Menu

Right-click on a geometry.

The pet menu appears.

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