OpenRail Designer Help

Selection

The selection group consists of a set of tools to select, lock, unlock, place fence, cut, copy, or paste the elements.

You can access this tool from the following:

  • Ribbon: Open Roads Modeling > Home > Selection
  • Ribbon: OpenRoads Drawing Production > Home > Selection
  • Ribbon: Survey > Home > Selection
  • Ribbon: Drawing > Home > Selection

Selection group

Setting

Description

Element Selection

Select and deselect elements on a per element basis, by defining an area, or by drawing a line that intersects them.



Select All

Select all elements in the design.



Select None

Deselect all elements in the design.

Fence Tools

  • Place Fence - Used to place a fence.
  • Modify Fence - Used to move a fence or modify one of its vertices.
  • Manipulate Fence Contents - Used to move, copy, rotate, mirror, scale, or stretch fence contents, which are defined by a fence and (except for stretching) the Fence (Selection) Mode.
  • Delete Fence Contents - Used to delete the fence contents.
  • Drop Fence Contents - Used to break up the contents in a fence into their components.
  • Save Fence to File - Used to copy or move the contents of the active fence to a new DGN or DWG file.
  • Named Boundary - Manage named boundaries and boundary groups using the Named Boundary dialog.
Note: For more in-depth information on Fence Tools, see the MicroStation help.