Selecting Elements

The Selector tool (on the Toolbar) is used extensively in the Project Editor to select, move, rotate, and snap together points and elements.

Selecting Elements

When an element is in range of the cursor, the element will become bold. Select an element by clicking on it. Selected elements display their handles and control points. The first control point on a selected element is shown as a filled in circle. Midpoints and endpoints are a hollowed circle. To release an element, click in clear space or press the Escape key.

Selecting Multiple Elements

To select multiple elements, you have several options:

• Click and drag a selection box (marquee) around any portion of those elements. All elements that are partially or completely enclosed by the box will be selected.

• Hold down the Shift key while you click to select multiple elements.

• Ctrl + A selects all elements.

• Ctrl + Shift + A inverts the selections.

When multiple elements are selected, a blue box will appear, indicating the center of the selected elements.

To release just one element when multiple elements are selected, hold down the Shift key and click on the element again. To deselect all selected elements, click anywhere in the drawing area.

Chain Select

Chain Select lets you select all the connected elements between your two elements.

To do a chain select:

Select an element. Hold down Ctrl and click on another element. All connected elements between these two will be selected. All the elements need to point the same direction in order to be selected. The direction of the first element shows you the direction PatternSmith will begin its search for connected elements. This is especially useful for selecting all the elements in a loop such as a perimeter.