Selecting entities within groups

The Select inside Groups command enables you to toggle between two different group selection modes:

• When the Select inside Groups command is selected, after starting any command of the list below, clicking on a group will result in selecting the entity you actually clicked on rather than the whole group it belongs to
   
• When the Select inside Groups command is not selected, after starting any command of the list below, clicking on an entity belonging to a group will result in selecting the whole group rather than the entity you actually clicked on.

You can find Select inside Groups under Customize Commands Select category. Select the icon from the Customize dialog box, drag and add it to a toolbar, to access the command. Note that the command actually toggles the selection filter options, as shown in the following image:



So, it is also enough to select the options from the Inside area of the selection filter dialog box, when the need arises.

Keyboard shortcut The G key can be used as a keyboard shortcut to the Select inside Groups command, working as a toggle switch (see also Keyboard Map and the Keyboard tab of the Customize command).

The Select inside Groups applies to the commands of the following list:

• Multistretch
• Trim/Extend Curves
• Trim/Extend Curves with Limits
• Smart Delete
• Split Curve
• Delete
• Hide Entities and Unhide Entities
  
  

  Note In case of the Hide Entities command, you can hide any group that belongs to another group without performing Set Current on the group, and select the check box, Group from the Inside area of the selection filter dialog box. If you are selecting a shared group, select the Shared group check box in the selection filter dialog box. Similarly, running Unhide Entities command and selecting the option Show All Hidden Entities from context menu (obtained by right clicking on the graphic area) you can unhide a group (shared or not), that belongs to another group without setting that group current.

When a command not belonging to the above list is started, the Select inside Groups operator is not available: its button is grayed out and the G key is not enabled.

Methodology articles related to this topic

• Introduction to groups