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Hotfix Era – User Manual
Object Selection tools
The first button in the vertical toolbar, located at the left of the working area, is the selection tool.
Pressing the button activates a powerfull, multiple function, selection tool:
If you click on an object, it is selected
If you click and drag left to right, the tool lets you
select by rectangle. A shaded rectangular box, with
one corner fixed at the position you start dragging
and the opposite located in the current mouse
pointer position, is displayed on the screen. When
you release the mouse buttons, all objects totally
inside the rectangle are selected.
If you click and drag right to left, the tool lets you select by “crossing rectangle”. In this mode,
objects totally or partially included in the rectangle are selected.
If press and hold the Ctrl key, a click on an object adds it to the selection set. Once an object is
added, a new click on it removes it from the selection set.
The selection tool button has an small triangle mark on the bottom-right corner. Clicking on it (and
also doing a long click anywhere on the button) unfolds the selection menu, with extra selection
tools:
Select by Rectangle: Is the default mode mentioned in the above paragraph
Select by Outline: In this mode, you create, click by click, a free shaped outline
surrounding the objects you need to select. Once did it, access the context menu and
select Ok to instruct the system to select all objects included inside the defined outline.
Select All: Automatically selects all objects in the design
Invert Selection: Creates an inverted selection set, that is: all currently selected objects
are unselected and all currently unselected objects are selected.
Hotfix piece edition tool
This tool lets you modify an individual hotfix piece, no matter if the piece belongs to an
object filling or is a manual hotfix piece.
Once the tool is activated and a bead selected:
 Drag to move the piece
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