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Selecting One or More Geometries

Select a geometry to manipulate it

Written by Holly Conrad Smith
Updated over a week 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.

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