Selecting Points, Edges, and Polygons

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Task Summary

  1. Before you can select points, edges, and polygons, make sure you are in PEP editing mode.

  2. Use the most convenient way to select PEPs. See How to Select PEPs for details.

  3. Verify that you have selected the right PEPs. Highlighting feedback can help you pinpoint which PEPs you have selected. You can also use this feedback to pinpoint PEPs you want to select. See Feedback Guides You for details.

How to Select PEPs

There are a few ways to select points, edges, and polygons:

Feedback Guides You

Define the Master Selection

The master, or primary selection is the last point, edge, or polygon selected.

Special case: Sweep selection defines the master selection as the point closest to where you click the cursor when starting the sweep. Paint selection defines the master selection as the last polygon the cursor passes over.

To redefine the master selection, you may need to deselect a PEP by Shift-clicking it and reselect that same PEP (again using Shift-click) to make it the most recently selected PEP (and therefore the master selection).

It is important to define which PEPs make up the master selection because the master selection is used in alignment. In the example below, the chimney is slanted (because its top polygon was extruded and pushed up from the slanted roof). To correctly align the chimney's edges, you need to pick the slanted edge. If the whole polygon or the wrong edge is selected, the edges won't align correctly.



See Aligning PEPs for more details.

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