Selecting Text
Howdy!
I'm looking for a way to select and either edit or delete a text label without hitting the contour/terrain behind it. The contour/terrain is on the Common sheet, so I can't just hide it.
I haven't found a way to select text at all, and to erase it, I'm using the "Erase" tool - which uses a selection box that grabs the text and everything behind it.
Any advice would be much appreciated!
I'm looking for a way to select and either edit or delete a text label without hitting the contour/terrain behind it. The contour/terrain is on the Common sheet, so I can't just hide it.
I haven't found a way to select text at all, and to erase it, I'm using the "Erase" tool - which uses a selection box that grabs the text and everything behind it.
Any advice would be much appreciated!
Comments
1) Select and get both, then type "n" for not, and select the contour (and anything else you inadvertently selected) somewhere that the text isn't. Using those combine commands is very powerful.
2) The contour should be on a different layer than the text. Freeze (or hide) the contour layer, then you can select the text alone.
3) Use the edit properties button (like the change properties, but it has a black "1" on it) -- it only selects one object at a time. The problem is it might not be the one you want (it might be the contour instead)
4) If all else fails: use the List command to see the tag number of the text. Then use select by entity tag (right click>more>entity tag #)
Getting the hang of selecting is one of the key thresholds to unlocking the power of CC3. Once you can quickly narrow down to the entity you want (by layer, by fill, by color, etc), your mapping speed goes way up and your frustration drops. It really makes the command syntax sing. I'm not kidding.
Post if this isn't working for you, or you need other ideas how to select.
Steve
Text entities are selected by clicking on the baseline of the text. If you do this correctly, you don't get the selection box at all. Doing it this way should allow you to click on the baseline of the text somewhere it doesn't overlap with the edge of the contour.
This goes for all CC3 tools that select anything. If you click precisely at the edge of the entity (baseline for text), you select only the item(s) at that position, and don't have to deal with the selection rectangle.