Documentation | Help File | UI | 2D Mode | Menu | Select | Select by Clipboard

Clicking on the Select/Select by Clipboard menu item provides a selection method using the temporary clipboard layer. The Select by Clipboard selection method is used to select a shape or multiple shapes contained in the currently active vector layer (the one highlighted in the Legend) that are in a predefined spatial relation with the geometric data stored in the temporary clipboard layer. The spatial relation model can be selected from the Select type list.

To select a shape or multiple shapes using the Select by Clipboard selection method

1. Prepare the shapes that will be used as selection reference and put them in the temporary clipboard layer using one of the following functions: Cut, Copy, Copy Special. The selection geometry can be also loaded from a vector layer file directly in to the temporary clipboard layer using the Load Clipboard feature.
2. Activate (highlight) the vector layer on which the selection is to be performed. Do this by clicking on its name in the Legend.
3. Choose a spatial relation model from the Select type list available under the Select/Select type menu item.
4. Click on the Select/Select by Clipboard menu item.

• To transfer the selected shapes to the temporary clipboard layer, use one of the following functions: Cut, Copy, Copy Special.
• To remove the selected shapes from the layer, use the Delete shape feature.
• To cancel all previously made selections, use the Deselect all feature.
• To invert the current selection, i.e. select all not selected shapes and deselect all selected shapes in the active layer, use the Invert Selection feature.
• To remove the selection figure, use the Remove selection figure feature.

See Localize, Select by Point, Select by Line, Select by Polygon, Select by Circle, Select by Rectangle, Select by Line Free, Select by Query, Select All.

• The temporary clipboard layer is an automatically created virtual object (stored in memory) and is not file type specific.
• All currently selected shapes are highlighted on the Map area.
• Values (or averages, maximal and minimal numeric values) of attributes of the selected shape (or shapes) are displayed in the Attributes tab of the Selected panel.