Shapes Menu

Shapes | Select By

Selects shapes according to a number of different shape properties. A property is chosen from the list in the Select By dialog box.

Shapes | Select All

Selects all shapes.

Shapes | Invert Selection

Changes un-selected shapes to selected, and selected shapes to un-selected.

Shapes | Select None

Un-selects all shapes.

Double click on the Shape column heading in the Shapes spreadsheet to select or un-select all shapes.

Shapes | Sort By

Sorts shapes according to a number of different shape properties. A property is chosen from the list in the Sort By dialog box.

Shapes | Move Selected Shapes Up

Moves the selected shapes upward in the Shapes spreadsheet each time this command is executed.

Shapes | Move Selected Shapes Down

Moves the selected shapes downward in the Shapes spreadsheet each time this command is executed.

Shapes | Add

Adds new shapes to a Shape Table. Shape data can be added in several ways,

Click on a spreadsheet cell and type in data.
Use the keyboard Ctrl C & Ctrl V commands to copy data between spreadsheet cells.
Choose items from the drop down list in a cell when available.
Double click on a column heading and enter data into the dialog box for all (or selected) Shapes.

Shapes | Delete Selected

Deletes selected Shapes from a Shape Table.

Shapes | Copy to File

Copies all (or selected) shapes and all (or selected) M#s of each shape into a new Shape Table file.

Shapes | Paste from File

Pastes shapes from another Shape Table file into the current Shape Table. When it is executed, the Shape Table Selection dialog box is opened.

Choose a Shape Table to paste and click on OK.

The shapes of the chosen Shape Table are pasted with those in the Shape Table window by comparing shape DOFs.

If a matching DOF is found, the data for the new shapes is added to the same row in the M#s spreadsheet where the matching DOF is found.
If no matching DOF is found, a new row of the M#s spreadsheet is created, and the new shape data is added to the new row.