Selecting and hiding structures

Purpose

You can select structures for analysis or Show/Hide by clicking or dragging with your mouse in the viewing window, using selection tools, or by clicking on structures or their names in the Traced Structures panel.

You can select a single structure or multiple structures for analysis. The analyses available will depend on what structures are selected.

Specific tools are available for selecting portions of larger structures; this enables specialized analyses:

Select point: Tree Points analysis or Vessel Points analysis.
Select segment: Individual Tree Segments analysis or Individual Vessel Segments analysis.

Procedure

Selecting with your mouse

Clicking objects with your mouse selects them. Mouse selection is similar to how it works in Microsoft Windows.

To add or delete from the selection use Ctrl click.
To select multiple objects within a marquee, hold down Ctrl, then click and drag the mouse, or click Marquee select then click and drag the mouse.

Selection tools

Find the following tools for selecting objects in the Select section of the View ribbon:

	Select all objects.
	Deselect anything that is currently selected.
	Click then drag the mouse over the objects you want to select.
	Select individual points in a tree or vessel.
	Select individual tree or vessel segments.

Hide/Show tools

Find the following tools for hiding or showing objects in the Select section of the View ribbon:

	Hide everything that is currently selected.
	Show (or unhide) everything that is hidden.

Selecting using the Traced Structures panel

If the panel is not already open, click the Traced Structures button on the View ribbon to open it.

To view a list of structures, click the small arrow.
To select a structure, click the name of the structure. The structure is highlighted in white in the tracing.
To select multiple structures, click the name of one structure, hold down Ctrl and click the names of the other structures.
To select and highlight all the vessel segments classified under the same name in the graphical window, click the Classification name.