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Edit Area Tools

• Click the Move edit handle to move the • Click the Multiple Copy edit button
entire selection set. See “Moving to make a series of copies of the selection
Objects” on page 248.
set at regular intervals. Concentric copies
• C l i c k t h e Rotate edit handle to rotate the are not possible using the Edit Area tools.
entire selection set. See “Rotating See “Multiple Copy” on page 179.
Objects” on page 263.
• Click the Make Parallel/Perpendicular
• Click and drag the Reshape and Resize edit button to rotate the Edit Area
edit handles at each corner and along marquee and the selection set so that the
each edge to adjust the size and shape of selected marquee edge is parallel or per-
the marquee. See “Using the Edit Han- pendicular to another straight edge. See
dles” on page 232.
“Using Make Parallel/Perpendicular” on
Adjusting the size or shape of an Edit Area page 255.
marquee may change which objects are
included in the selection set but does not • Click the Point to Point Move edit
otherwise affect those objects. button to accurately move the selection
set. See “Point to Point Move” on page
Using the Edit Toolbar 250.

A selected Edit Area marquee and/or the • Click the Center Object edit button
objects within it can be edited in a variety of to center the selection along a wall within
ways using the buttons on the edit toolbar. a room or relative to a cabinet fixture.
See “Using the Edit Toolbar” on page 233. See “Using Center Object” on page 256.

The following toolbar buttons may display • Click the Reflect About Object edit
on the edit toolbar for an Edit Area marquee: button to reflect the selection set about
another object. See “Reflecting Objects”
• Click the Copy/Paste edit button to on page 265.
copy the selection set to the system clip-
board so it can be pasted elsewhere. See • C l i c k t h e Allowed Angles edit button
“Copying and Pasting Objects” on page to open the Place at Allowed Angles
176. dialog.

• Click the Delete edit button to delete Place at Allowed
the selection set. See “Deleting Objects” Angles Dialog
on page 283.
• Click the Transform/Replicate Object If more than one percent of the
straight walls included in an Edit Area
edit button to copy, move, rotate, marquee are not at an Allowed Angle, the
resize, or reflect the selection set. See Allowed Angles edit button displays.
“Transform/Replicate Object Dialog” on
page 269. Click the Allowed Angles edit button to
display the Place at Allowed Angles dialog.

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