Selecting individual objects in components

Standard behavior of objects in components

When you work with components, EngView follows a default behavior of treating all the objects in a component as one — when you attach components, move them around the work area, or delete them, all the objects that make up the component move as one. As a result of this, you cannot select any of these objects separately.

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Clicking a component selects all the objects it is made of.

Minor changes require selecting individual objects

Yet situations may occur when you need to make minor changes — most often change the style of one or more of the objects in a components — without modifying the rest of the objects. This topic tells you how to do this quite easily.

To select an individual object in a component

  1. Press and hold down SHIFT + CTRL.

Notice the three bubbles that appear at the mouse pointer — this tells you that you are about to select individual objects.

  1. Use the mouse to point to the object that you want to select.
Individual Select

The three bubbles at the mouse pointer tell you that you can select the component's objects one by one.

  1. Click the object. You can click multiple objects one by one, including objects in other components.
Change Style

The lines in pink are now selected; the rest of the objects in the components are not. In the upper left corner, the Styles box is now available and you can use it to change the style of the selected objects.

  1. In the upper left corner, use the Styles box to change the style of the selected objects.
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