Selecting

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Mode:

Edit Mode

Menu:

3D Viewport Header ‣ Select Mode

Shortcut:

1, 2, 3

Edit Mode selection buttons.

In Edit Mode there are three different selection modes. You can enter the different modes by selecting one of the three buttons in the header.

Points

To select individual points.

Strokes

To select an entire stroke.

Points in Between

To select all points that are between other strokes.

Points, stroke and in between stroke selection sample.

Select Menu

Box/Circle/All/None/Invert Select

All these options have the same meaning and behavior as in Object Mode.

Select Linked

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Mode:

Edit Mode

Menu:

Select ‣ Linked

Shortcut:

L, Ctrl-L

L (or Ctrl-L for all) will add to the selection the cursor’s nearest control point, and all the linked ones, i.e. all points belonging to the same stroke.

Select Alternated

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Mode:

Edit Mode

Menu:

Select ‣ Alternated

Selects alternate points in the selected strokes.

Select Random

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Mode:

Edit Mode

Menu:

Select ‣ Random

Randomly selects unselected points or strokes.

Ratio

The likelihood of an unselected elements being selected. Note that, this is not the percentage amount of elements that will be selected.

Random Seed

Seed used by the pseudo-random number generator.

Action

Selection or deselection of elements.

Unselect Ends

Excludes the selection of stroke end points.

Select Grouped

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Mode:

Edit Mode

Menu:

Select ‣ Grouped

Shortcut:

Shift-G

Layer

Selects all the points/strokes on the same layer.

Material

Selects all the points/strokes that share the same material.

Select Color Attribute

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Mode:

Vertex Paint Mode

Menu:

Select ‣ Color Attribute

Selects all points with a similar Color Attribute as the current selection.

Tolerance

How similar colors are allowed to be; higher values select a wider range of colors.

Select First/Last

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Mode:

Edit Mode

Menu:

Select ‣ First/Last

These operators will toggle the selection of the first or last point(s) of the stroke(s) in the object. This is useful to quickly find the start of a stroke.

Select More/Less

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Mode:

Edit Mode

Menu:

Select ‣ More/Less

Shortcut:

Ctrl-NumpadPlus, Ctrl-NumpadMinus

The purpose of these tools is to reduce or enlarge the current selection within a stroke (i.e. they will never “go outside” of a stroke or “jump” to another stroke in the same object).

More

For each selected point, select all its linked points (i.e. one or two…).

Less

For each selected point, if all points linked to this point are selected, keep this one selected. Otherwise, deselect it.

Hint

When all points of a stroke are selected, nothing will happen (as for Less, all linked points are always selected, and of course, More cannot add any). Conversely, the same goes when no points are selected.