20 / 103 Friendess CypCut Laser Cutting Control System
2.2 Selection
CypCut provides various ways to select graphics. The basic operation is 'Click',
click the graphic will select it. Another commonly used operation is 'Frame', drag the
cursor on the screen will create a frame box. There are 2 patterns of 'Frame': Press
and hold from left to right will create a blue box, only when a whole part was framed
in the box will be selected. From right to left will create a green box, as long as part
of the graphic was framed in the box, the whole graphic will be selected.
The 'frame' effect of these 2 patterns shown below. Left image is effect framing
from left to right, 'BC' will be selected; right image is effect framing from right to
left, 'ABCD' all selected. It’s flexible to select graphic by these two patterns.
Press Shift when select graphic you can select or deselect graphic without
changing the select result of other graphics.
Click ' Select' will open a drop down menu providing more options:
Basic operations: Select all (Ctrl+A), Invert, Copy (Ctrl+C), Paste
(Ctrl+V), Cut (Ctrl+X), Deselect, Copy with base point.
Graphic operations: Select unclosed graphics, select similar graphics,
select inner/outer contour, and select graphics smaller than specified size.
Layer operations: Select the layer (used to select all the graphics in a layer)
and lock the background.
'Disable Drag and Copy" will disable the operation that press Ctrl and drag
the graphics to duplicate graphics. This will prevent the malposition of
nested graphics.
'Select similar graphic' will select all graphics with same shape. For example,
select a circle of 5mm radius, then click this option will select all circles of 5mm
radius.
