This is a portion of our DraftSight User Manual, which should be accessible via the EagleRock Help icon on your machine's Desktop. If you do not have a Help icon, contact EagleRock customer support to have this feature added.
Selecting Entities
Items are selected with a selection box. Click once on an empty space in the drawing area to start the selection box, then open the selection box until you have reached the desired size and click again to finish the box and select the entities.
There are two forms of selection when using the mouse. You can either select entities that are entirely within the selection box by drawing the box from left to right, or select entities that are inside or intersect with the selection box by drawing the box from right to left.
(numbers designate order in which corners were specified)
When drawing the selection box from the left to right, the box is designated with a solid blue line. When drawing from right to the left, the box is a dashed green line.
In the example on the left, where the box was drawn from left to right, only the line would be selected. In the example on the right, where the box was drawn starting on the right side, both the line and circle would be selected.
If you have already selected an entity and would like to select another, you can add to your selection by drawing another selection box. To deselect all entities, press the escape key. To deselect a specific entity, hold the shift key as you draw a selection box over it.