Select

With the Select tool, you can use your mouse, or graphic tablet and pen, to select drawing objects in the Drawing View or the Camera View.

• If you press [Command] when the mouse pointer is outside a selection, your mouse pointer becomes a lasso that you can use to draw free-form selection marks around drawing objects.
• Press [Option] to copy as you drag.

Use one of the following methods to activate the Select tool:

• Select Tools > Drawing Tools > Select.
• Click the Select tool on the Drawing Tools toolbar.

If the Select tool is visible in the Drawing Tools toolbar, press [1] to activate it.

• Press [Command] when using any of the following tools to switch temporarily to the Select tool: Zoom, Polyline, Line, Rectangle, Ellipse, Brush, Pencil, Eraser, Stroke, Close Gap, Paint, Paint Unpainted, Unpaint, Dropper, Edit Texture and Grabber.
• Press [Shift]+[1], the default keyboard shortcut.

See Also
Working with Selections
Selecting Elements