Easy tutorials - Select and Move

Preparation and creation of a cube

Please create a new document by [Menu > File > Create]. There is nothing in the view.

Click [Primitive] command, and click [Cube] in the Sub panel.

A cube is displayed as wires in the view.

The cube has 6 faces and 8 vertices as default. Now you change [Segment].

Please click [Segment] in the 3D view, and click [+] so that the X, Y, Z numbers are [3].

Please click [Create] in the 3D view once. A divided cube will be created.

Note: [Create] in the 3D view is the same as [Create] button in the Sub panel. Primitives can be created by both buttons.

Please Click [Select] command, and confirm if [Normal] in the Sub panel is active and [Pt] [Ln] [Fc] buttons in Edit option are on.


[Normal] in the Sub panel	Edit option [Pt] [Ln] [Fc] buttons are on

Confirm the selection by the color

All vertices and faces in the created cube are selected. Lines and vertices are green.

Next, let's unselect them. Please call [Menu > Edit > Unselect all].

All vertices and lines become pink. They are unselected.

Please call [Menu > Edit > Select all] when you want to select all again


Selected all vertices and faces	Unselected

Select and unselect

Let's select or unselect a point, a line or a face.

	It becomes yellow when a mouse cursor is over it	Selected by clicking
Face
Line
Point

Note: Please rotate or scale a view like View operation when a face you want to select is difficult to select. It is easy to select in a proper direction and scaling.

You can unselect the selected element by clicking it again.

And when [Normal] in [Select] command is active, you can select or unselect vertices or faces continuously by dragging with Shift key. (Not applied for lines)

Move after selecting all elements

You can move a whole object by selecting all points, lines and faces in the object.

Please call [Menu > Edit > Select all], and select [Move] command.

You can move the whole cube by dragging a Handle.


An arrow of a handle becomes cyan when a mouse cursor is over it.		The selected elements are moved by dragging.

Note: A handle is not shown when anything is not selected.

Move after selecting faces

Let's move the following blue faces after selecting them.

Please call [Menu > Edit > Unselect all].

And select [Select] command.

After confirming if [Normal] in the Sub panel is active, please click multiple faces with Shift key to select them.


Select faces by clicking with Shift key

Select [Move] command. You can move the selected face only by using a handle.

Move a vertex and merge vertices

Let's move a vertex without using [Select] command.

Please call [Menu > Edit > Unselect all], and select [Move] command.

Please move a mouse cursor on a vertex, and drag the vertex that becomes yellow. You can move it.


Move the vertices by dragging		After moving

Note: You can move a vertex by a handle after clicking the vertex in [Move] command.

You can merge the dragged vertex to the nearest one by clicking a right button while you drag the vertex.


Click a right button while moving a vertex,		the vertex is merged to the nearest one.

[Select] and [Move] commands are basic. Let's practice repeatedly.