Curve Tool: Selecting Points

Points need to be selected before doing several operations, such as expanding/contracting, deleting, and editing properties. Currently selected points are outlined with a blue square in the Graph view, and outlined in a black box or highlighted with a blue background in the Spreadsheet view. There are a number of ways to select points. Each is described below:

To select a single point with the mouse in the Graph view:

  1. Click on the point in the Graph view.

 

To select a single point with the mouse in the Spreadsheet view:

  1. Click on the header for the point in the Spreadsheet view. You can also select all the property cells for a point, see Selecting Cells for details.

 

To select multiple points using the mouse and selection box:

  1. Click and drag to select a region of the Graph view.

All points that fall within this region will become selected. The selection box will be resized to fit just the selected points. The selection box can be used for moving all the points together or expanding and contracting the points.

 

To select a range of points using the mouse in the Graph view:

  1. Click on the first point in the range.

  2. Hold down the SHIFT key and click on the last point in the range.

These two points and all points with time (or master position) values that fall between the two will be selected.

 

To select a range of points using the mouse in the Spreadsheet view:

  1. Click on the header for the first point.

  2. Hold down the SHIFT key and click on the header for the last point.

These two points and all the point in between these two will be selected.

See Selecting Cells for more information.

 

To add or remove a point from the list of selected points in the Graph view:

  1. Hold down the CTRL key, and click on a point.

If the point was previously selected, it will be de-selected. If it was not previously selected, then it will become selected.

 

To add or remove a point from the list of selected points in the Spreadsheet view:

  1. Hold down the CTRL key and click on the header for that point.

See Selecting Cells for details.

 

To select all points in the active curve:

  1. On the Edit menu, click Select All.

You can also use the CTRL+A shortcut key to issue this command.

 

To select points with the keyboard in the Graph view:

  1. Press any of the following keys to change the selection to the point indicated. Holding down the SHIFT key with any of these keys will select a range of points instead of just the single point:

    Press

    To Select

    HOME

    First point in the curve.

    END

    Last point in the curve.

    LEFT ARROW
    UP ARROW

    Previous point.

    RIGHT ARROW
    DOWN ARROW

    Next point.

     

    See Also: Curve Tool Topics

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