Selection

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

Used to select and deselect elements for modification or manipulation. The set of selected elements is called the selection set.

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
Figure 1. 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.
Lock 		Allows you to lock selected element.
Unlock 		Allows you to un-lock selected element.
Bring to Front 		Allows you to bring to front the selected element.
Cut 		Allows you to cut the selected element.
Copy 		Allows you to copy the selected element.
Paste 		Allows you to paste selected element.
Paste Special 		Allows you to select the data type and open the Paste dialog where a special display format can be applied to the contents of the Clipboard