Grouping Objects - Janome DigitizerPro Instruction Book

Locking and grouping objects
When you lock objects, you can prevent them from
being moved or modified by accident. When you
group objects, you can apply a change to all
objects at once, saving time, and ensuring that the
change is consistent across all.
Locking objects
Select Edit > Lock to lock selected objects. Select Edit >
Unlock to unlock objects.
Lock objects to prevent them from being moved or
modified by accident. For example, locking
backdrops or vector drawings holds them in place
as you digitize, transform or reshape the
embroidery objects near them. Locked objects can
be unlocked for modification at any time.
To lock objects
Select the object you want to lock and select Edit >
Lock.
The selection handles disappear, indicating that the
object can no longer be selected or modified.
To unlock objects, select Edit > Unlock.
All locked objects in the design are unlocked.
Try this! Right-click the selected objects and select
lock from the popup menu.

Grouping objects

You can group selected objects or the whole design
to keep them together for moving, scaling and
transforming actions.
To group objects
1 Select the objects to group.
2 Select Edit > Group.
Right-click and
select Align
Selected objects are combined into a group. This can
be selected, moved, resized and transformed as a
single object.
Try this! To select with a bounding outline, simply drag
the outline over one component object and the whole
group will be selected. See also
a bounding
Ungrouping objects
Select Edit > Ungroup to ungroup selected objects.
When you have finished making changes to a
group, you can ungroup it and work with the
objects individually.
Note You need to ungroup before you can set
embroidery properties for any individual object in
the group.
To ungroup objects
1 Select the grouped object.
2 Select Edit > Ungroup.
The object is ungrouped, and the component objects
selected.
component objects selected
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Object is ungrouped,
Select, move, resize,
transform grouped
objects as a single object
Selecting objects with
Ungrouped objects can be
selected individually
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