Grouping Mode is a work mode in Workpack specially designed to help users focus on some particular group of measurements and edit its contents faster.

There are three ways to activate Grouping mode. Click on the group you want to edit and

• Press CTRL + G, or
• Hit the Grouping mode icon in the bulk actions pane (it’s in the top right part of the Viewer), or
• Hit the context menu button next to the group's title in the Left Panel, then click on the ‘Grouping mode’ option.

As soon as you activate Grouping mode, the measurements that already belong to the current group will highlight with bright yellow color. The other objects of the same type will be marked with blue, almost-transparent fill. However, hovering over them makes them turn solid blue, which means they are available to be added to the current group.

Hint:

To escape Grouping mode, press Esc button on the keyboard or switch to another work mode. You can also hit the ‘Exit’ button in the mode indication pane (it’s in the top left part of the Viewer).

How to use Grouping Mode

Grouping Mode makes sorting measurements by groups significantly faster.

So, you selected a custom group of walls and entered Grouping Mode. Try doing this:

1. Add a measurement to the current group. Move the mouse pointer over any measurement filled with light blue. As soon as the measurement turns deep blue, click, and it will be added to the selected group.

2. Remove measurements from the current group. Choose any measurement with bright yellow fill and double-click it. Measurement removed from the current group are placed in the ‘Unlabeled’ group.

3. Select measurements. Click on any measurement that belong to the current group to select it. Press and hold CTRL key to select multiple measurements.

4. Deleting objects. Select an object and press DEL button on a keyboard. You can also open the context menu by right-clicking selected measurements and selecting the ‘Delete’ option. In Grouping mode you can only delete measurements of the same type as other measurements in the current group.

5. Create a new measurement. Press SPACE key and click on the drawing to start adding a new measurement. You can manage adding settings as Click-by-Click and Snap to Point modes in the bulk actions pane.

   Hint: Do not hold the SPACE key, as it may switch off the Grouping mode and open the Add menu.

6. Moving measurements. Click on the measurement and drag it. You can also select multiple measurements by holding CTRL and drag them. Only measurements belonging to the current group can be dragged.