ET Selection Tools

ET Selection Tools

Target layer: Point Polyline, Polygon

Description: Select the features from the user specified layer. The major difference from the standard selection tool is that these selection tools do not allow selecting features from two or more different layers at the same time. Use the Hot Key "S" to open the dialog that will let you switch the selection layer. The selection layer can be set to the Current Edited Layer, in this case whenever the target layer is changed the selection layer is automatically changed as well.

Select by rectangle : If the rectangle is dragged with the left mouse button the features that intersect the selection rectangle will be selected. If the rectangle is dragged using the right mouse button only the features that are completely inside the dragged rectangle will be selected.
Select by circle : If the circle is dragged with the left mouse button the features that intersect the dragged circle will be selected. If the circle is dragged using the right mouse button only the features that are completely inside the dragged circle will be selected.
Select by polygon : If the Shift key is pressed down during the digitizing the selection polygon only the features that are completely inside the polygon will be selected
Select by polyline : The features intersected by the selection polyline will be selected.

Advantages:

Never get selected features that you don't want to select
Quick way to change the selection layer
Skip several steps needed to use the standard Select By Polyline and Select By Polygon tasks. (Change the task ==> Click the Sketch tool ==> Select features ==> Change the task back)
Allow selection of features that are completely inside the selection geometry

Hot Keys (Pressing these keys when the tool is active will allow changing the parameters used by the function):

"S" - opens a dialog that will let the user to change the selection layer
"Shift Key" Down - adds the newly selected features to the current selection

Note:

In order to avoid accidental editing of data. The selection tools do not work on invisible layers