Indicating items

An item can be indicated in three ways:

• Indicating/selecting one item by cross-hair selection. Click on a selected item with the left mouse button. This is called the cross-hair selection. You can alspo pointing to the item and press the Space key.

• Indicating one or more items by clump/conflict selection For selecting one or multiple items, drag a clump or a conflict box by moving the mouse while presing the left mouse butto.

• Include/exclude items from selection group. For including or excluding items from selection group use the cross-hair, clump or conflict selection in combination with the Shift key.

In order to approve your selection, some functions ask for pressing the <Enter> key when you are ready with selecting items.

Clump selection

Dragging a box (with the left mouse button pressed) from left to right will select items which lie fully inside the box.

dragging clump box

after clump selection

Conflict selection

Dragging a box (with the left mouse button pressed) from right to left will select items which lie fully or partly inside the box. In de pictures below you see how to select the line and the circle by dragging a conflict box.

dragging conflict box

after conflict selection

Using the Shift key

Crosshair selection + Shift

• pointed selected item is removed from the selection group

• pointed unselected item is added to the selection group

Clump box selection + Shift

• selected items fully inside the box are removed from the selection group

• unselected items fully inside the box are added to the selection group

Conflict box selection+ Shift

• selected items fully or partly inside the box are removed from the selection group

• unselected items fully or partly inside the box are added to the selection group