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Grouping by common selection

When several objects are selected, any operations you carry out are

applied to all of the objects. For example, you can rotate a group of

objects in its entirety. Groups obtained through common selection of

several objects are undone as soon as you click outside the group.

However, you can group objects and keep those selected objects

grouped together.

Maintaining groups and undoing groups

To group selected objects, right-click and choose Group from the pop-

up menu. You can also use the keyboard shortcut

Control+Shift+G

choose Modify > Group from the menu bar.

When objects are grouped, any editing operations carried out on that

group are applied to all members of the group. If you click on one

member of the group, the whole group is selected.

The objects of a group retain their own individual properties. To undo a

group, right-click and choose Ungroup from the pop-up menu, use the

keyboard shortcut

Control+Alt+Shift+G

or choose Modify >

Ungroup from the menu bar.

You can edit a member of a group individually without breaking the

group. To do this, right-click and choose Enter group or double-click

on the group.

Combining objects

In contrast to grouping functions,

combinations

create a new object;

subsequent “un-combining” in the same manner as ungrouping is not

possible. Select a collection of objects, then right-click and choose

Combine from the pop-up menu.

After you have selected more than one object, the Merge, Subtract,

and Intersect functions can be reached in the Modify > Shapes menu

or though the group’s right-click menu under the heading Shapes.

Aids for positioning objects

Draw has various tools to help you arrange the objects with respect to

each other:

• Moving an object to the front or to the back

• Aligning objects with respect to each other

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