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Selecting several at once

Most edits are quicker in bulk. In Edit mode you can select any number of houses, fences, library objects, text labels and tags at once, then move, rotate, copy, duplicate, delete or lock the whole lot in one go.

Changing several house types at once

Select any number of houses and pick a type from the toolbar dropdown. Every one of them changes, keeping its own position, angle and handing, and it is one undo step rather than one per house. A selection with more than one type in it shows “— mixed —” rather than claiming they all match the first.

Locked houses are skipped, not refused: the rest change and the message says how many were left alone. Runs work the same way — select any number of fences or walls and pick a style.

Making a selection

To do this	Do that
Select a group	Drag a box on empty ground. Anything the box fully encloses is selected.
Add or remove one	Ctrl-click it (⌘-click on a Mac). Clicking a selected one takes it back out.
Add a whole box	Hold Ctrl/⌘ while you drag a second box.
Start again	Click empty ground, or press Esc.

Selected objects are outlined, with a dashed box around the whole group, and the toolbar tells you what you have — for example ✥ 12 houses, 4 objects selected.

The box selects what it fully encloses, not everything it touches. Clip the edge of a house and that house is left out — which is what you want when you are picking a row out of a dense scheme. Text labels and tags are the exception: the box takes any it touches, except a Ref only mark, which comes exactly when its house or object does (see labels and tags).

What you can do with a selection

Action	How
Move	Drag any member. The group keeps its exact shape — nothing shuffles or re-snaps.
Rotate	Press [ or ], or switch the toolbar to Rotate and drag. The group turns about its own centre. Hold Shift for 15° steps.
Copy & paste	Ctrl/⌘+C, then Ctrl/⌘+V to drop a copy at the pointer. Spacing inside the group is preserved.
Duplicate	Ctrl/⌘+D — a copy appears just beside the original.
Delete	The Delete key, the 🗑 tool, or right-click ▸ Delete.
Lock / unlock	The 🔓 Lock button, or right-click ▸ Lock. See locking.

A moved group keeps its shape exactly. A single house snaps to its neighbours and the road as you drag it; a group deliberately does not, or the houses inside it would snap to each other and the row would close up as you moved it.

Locked members

A locked house inside a selection is skipped, not a blocker — the rest still move, rotate and delete, and the toolbar says how many were left behind. So pinning the one house you are sure about does not stop you working on the street around it.

Mixed selections

A selection can hold houses, fences, objects, text labels and tags together. When it does, only the actions that make sense for everything in it are offered — move, rotate, copy, delete, lock. Anything house-specific, like Flip or changing the house type, applies to one house and is hidden or refused for a group; deselect down to a single house for those. Text labels and tags are never locked: Lock skips them and locks the rest.

Fences

Fences can be selected too — box them in, or Ctrl/⌘-click one — and they move, rotate, copy, paste and delete with the rest of the group. A single fence can be copied and pasted on its own as well.

Fences cannot be locked, on their own or in a group. Locking every other object works as usual and the toolbar says how many fences were left out. It is a storage limit rather than a decision: a fence is stored as a plain run of points with nowhere to keep the flag, so a lock on one would quietly disappear the next time the design was saved.

What it does not cover yet. Roads, footpaths, driveways and parking bays cannot be part of a selection — use them one at a time.

On an iPad, turn on ⊕ Multi in the bottom bar: each tap then adds a house, object, fence, label or tag to the selection or takes it out, and a box dragged across empty ground adds to it. Turn it off to go back to single taps.

Shift is not the modifier here. Shift already locks a drag to an axis and snaps a rotation to 15° steps, so adding to a selection is Ctrl/⌘ instead — for labels and tags too. A Shift-click is an ordinary click.

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