Selecting multiple objects

[vistisen]

Hi David, here is yet another wish, I have by now mentioned several times that I am trying designs for a prototypical railway. This design has now gone through several iterations. Sometimes there are large areas of the design I wish to copy. It would be nice to be able to click and drag a box that on realeasing the mouse button selects all the track sections in the box (rather like you can selecting multiple objects in most drawing/dtp programmes), a right click menu that allows you to copy, create section, select inverse, list track objects and so on would be ideal.

[David]

Well, most of these wishes will be realized in version 4, where you can quite easily select a part of your layout and copy it into another one.

Select inverse is not in it in the sense you indicate here though.

Just a little more patience!

Note: all upgrades to the upcoming version 4 will be free for people who have bought a license for version 3.

David.

[vistisen]

I am using version 4, but I can not see how to make sections without havint to select each object one a time, see the attached jpg I want to make the whole station area to a section. Is there no way other than clicking on each object?

[vistisen]

Hi David, now I have gone away and read the help. I can see that you can do what I want by adding isolaters to define the ends of a section., So there is an easy way, but  I still think that being able to use the mouse to multiple select would be helpfull

[Jeff]

I think the only way to easily do what you want is to have David create what is called a 'free-form' select. In other words, to select, you outline an area with a mouse, but it doesn't have to be rectangular. That way you can outline the part you want to select a lot more closely.