Grouping Zones

[Steve Jepson]

How can I group some zones together so I can move them around.

[Laszlo Nagy]

Would be good but I do not think this is possible to do.

[Djordje]

Steve wrote:
How can I group some zones together so I can move them around.

Save them as a selection.

[Laszlo Nagy]

Good one, I like that.

[Steve Jepson]

I tried to save them as a selection set. It seemed to work but when I try to place them in as a .gsm I get this error message.

Is there a different way to "Save Selection as.." than making it into an object?

Also, now I have know idea why I wanted to group the zones. I can move them around just fine with out doing that.

[Ben Odonnell]

Steve,
What Djordje meant ,Djordje please correct me if I'm wrong,was that you can mark elements just as you have done, but under window-->Palette Display, you will find at the bottom of the menu, Show Selections.
Once you get up your dialog you can then select any combination of elements and save them as selection sets.

Essentially saving a set of pre defined selections and being able to select or deselect them at any time by simply using the +/- buttons.

Once you start using it you will wonder what you did with out it. It's a very handy tool.


Cheers.
Ben

[Steve Jepson]

ooooh. Thats great. I didn't know about that tool.

[Laszlo Nagy]

To tell you the truth, I did not either.
It is good we can learn so much of this stuff from each other

[Anonymous]

Ben wrote:
What Djordje meant ,Djordje please correct me if I'm wrong,was that you can mark elements just as you have done, but under window-->Palette Display, you will find at the bottom of the menu, Show Selections.
Once you get up your dialog you can then select any combination of elements and save them as selection sets.

Essentially saving a set of pre defined selections and being able to select or deselect them at any time by simply using the +/- buttons.

I haven't thought about the Show Selections in a while. I'll have to test it out further but after a quick test I don't think these selection sets get saved in templates.

However, if you use the Find & Select feature (Edit/Find & Select...) you can save the Selection Set and it can be saved as a part of a Template as well. Funny, I would think that Selection Sets saved through the Find & Select... featured would show up in the Show Selections window? a wish?

Woody

[Ben Odonnell]

Woody,
I think you are onto some thing here! What a great idea. At a quick glance it seems to me that the Find & Select version of saving groups is much more detailed and can contain a hole array of criteria.

Were as the selection set version is for a quick way of saving out groups of elements to select and nothing more.
As you pointed out, you can save out these type of selection sets in a TPL file but the way that I have shown it you can not.

I see no reason why these type of selection sets can not be show and used directly in the selection sets window as you pointed out.

Cheers.
Ben