Selecting Entities for Operations

Selecting Entities for Operations

In many contexts within PRIMER (blanking, orienting, deletion, ...) it is necessary to select one or more entities for the current operation. Selection takes place using a system of cascading "object menus", combined with screen-picking, area selection and keyed in data.

Primary Selection

• Selection from Menu List
• "Filtering" Selections

Screen and Area Picking

• Rejecting Screen Picks

"Keying In" Selections

• "Key In" Syntax

Combining Methods, Restarting, Other Selection Methods.

When performing operations you have to select those entities upon which to operate. This is done via a standard selection menu hierarchy as follows: