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The default selection ribbon is displayed only when nothing is selected. After you select an object, the selection ribbon is replaced with a ribbon bar for editing the selected object.

SHARED Tip To find out the name of an option on the ribbon, pause the pointer over an option and read the ToolTip.

Inside Fence Inside

Specifies that elements inside the fence are selected.

Overlap Overlapping

Specifies that elements overlapped by the fence are selected, as well as elements inside the fence.

Top Down Top Down

Specifies that groups of elements are located as opposed to individual elements in a group.

Bottom Up Bottom Up

Specifies that individual elements in a group are located as opposed to the whole group.

Mouse Gesture

Switches the Fence Locate mode from Inside to Overlap using the mouse. Inside is the default mode for Fence Locate. When the mouse cursor is to the right of the starting point, the mode is Inside selection. When the mouse cursor is to the left of the starting point, the mode changes to Overlap for fence selection. Single-click locate operations are not affected. When you select Mouse Gesture, it is enabled in both Select and SmartSelect modes.

Expand

Displays another ribbon depending on the items that you selected on the drawing sheet. This button appears when you select ten or more items on the drawing sheet. When you click it, another ribbon appears.

The options that appear depend on the types of elements that you selected. For example, if you select eleven lines, then the Line ribbon appears. If you select several types of items, then only the common properties for those types of elements appear on the Select Tool ribbon. For example, if you select nine lines and a circle, then the ribbon displays the Style, Line Type, Width, and Color options. For more information about the options that appear, see the Help topic for the selected element's ribbon.

If the items that you selected have no common properties, then no options will appear if you click Expand. For example, if you select a dimension and ten lines and then click Expand, a ribbon does not appear.

See Also

Move an Element with the Select Tool
Copy an Element with the Select Tool