Edit Menu
Tool summary :
- Edits or multi-edits items that you have selected.
- Edit (this tool) is a generic tool that operates on any type of object. You can invoke generic edit by choosing Edit > Edit (classic) or by right-click ( Menu ) > " Edit" .
- Xxx Edit commands (where xxx = the object name) are also discussed on this help page and are object specific, not generic. They have built-in selection filtering that makes them operate on objects of a specific type (type xxx).
- For multi-edit in the Drawing Editor , it can take fewer mouse clicks to use an object-specific Xxx Edit command instead of this tool (generic Edit ). An object-specific Edit tool acts on objects of that specific type without your having to switch to a selection filter then switch back to another selection filter.
- Check out these examples :
- See (also on this page):
Also see :
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Examples :
Example 1: Right-click ( Menu ) > " Edit" (multiple object types selected, Drawing Editor ).
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1 . In Select Items mode, select multiple types of objects. Right-click ( Menu ) and choose " Edit " on the context menu .
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2 . The Multi Items Edit window opens. The window has multiple tabs on it, one tab for each type of object that was in the selection made in step 1.
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Example 2: Right-click ( Menu ) > " Edit " (selection filtering so that only one object type in the selection is edited, Drawing Editor ).
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1 . In Select Items mode, select one or more objects of the same type. In this example, the selection filter is set to ' Labels ', and selection is done by holding down the left mouse button ( Select ) to draw an area box .
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2 . Right-click ( Menu ) and choose " Edit " on the context menu .
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3 . The Edit Label window opens in this example because, due to selection filtering, a label was the only type of object selected in step 1.
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Example 3: Xxx Edit .(only objects of type xxx are selected -- no selection filtering is needed)
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1 . In Select Items mode, select objects of any type. In this example, the objects are selected by holding down the left mouse button ( Select ) and drawing an area box .
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2 . Invoke the object-specific edit tool ( Edit Label in this example).
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3 . The Edit Label window opens in this example. All objects other than labels were, after step 2, discarded from the section that was made in step 1.
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Invoking generic Edit :
Method 1 : Choose " Edit " on the default context menu in Modeling or the default context menu in the Drawing Editor . Or, on either of these context menus, choose " Edit other " and select an item to edit on the cascade menu. Or, on the default model tree context menu , with one or more items of the same type are already selected, choose " Edit ."
Method 2 : Choose Edit > Edit in Modeling (classic) or the Drawing Editor .
Method 3 : In Modeling , a toolbar icon or a keyboard shortcut can also be set up to invoke the generic Edit tool. Edit can be taken from the group named ' Selection '.
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Preselection versus in-tool selection :
- If you preselect items before you Right-click ( Menu ) > " Edit" in Modeling or the Drawing Editor , the tool acts on those preselected items. In the Drawing Editor , if those items are different types, the Multi Items Edit window opens.
- If there is no preselection when you Edit > Edit in Modeling or the Drawing Editor , you are given Select Item(s) mouse bindings and are prompted to make a selection.
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Select Item(s) bindings
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- " Edit " is either not visible ( Modeling ) or is disabled ( Drawing Editor ) on the default context menu when there is no selection.
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What generic Edit does in Modeling :
- In Modeling , right-click ( Menu ) > " Edit " opens the edit window for one or multiple members, materials, holes, bolts, welds, construction lines or construction circles. It can be used to edit multiple members or edit multiple materials or edit multiple bolts or edit multiple holes or edit multiple welds . " Edit Other " (on the context menu ) edits only one entity at a time.
- When incompatible types of objects are selected, right-click (menu) > "Edit" acts only on those items that are higher in the hierarchy. Example 1: If members are selected along with materials that are not a part of those members, " Edit " acts on the members and clears the materials from the selection. Example 2: If materials and holes, bolts or welds not associated with those materials are selected, " Edit " acts on the materials and clears the other items from the selection.
- When multiple members of the same type are selected (e.g., beams only), right-click (menu) > "Edit" opens the edit window for members of that type.
- When multiple members of the different types are selected (e.g., beams and columns), right-click (menu) > "Edit" opens the Edit Properties window.
- When multiple materials of the same type are selected (e.g. rectangular plates only), right-click (menu) > "Edit" opens the edit window for materials of that type. When multiple materials of the different types are selected (e.g. rectangular plates and rolled sections), it opens the User Created Standard Part Material window.
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What generic Edit does in the Drawing Editor :
- If the objects selected are the same type, the edit window opens for objects of that type. See example 2 on this page.
- If objects are different types, the Multi Items Edit window opens. See example 1 on this page.
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