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I would like to select all objects in the middle of the drawing (my desired objects are multilayered smallish button design, which consists of about 10-12 objects.The whole drawing has probably 1000 objects at multiple layers.There are big objects serving as background, which I do not desire to select).
How can I select these small objects nicely?
What I have done:
Selected whole drawing, did Shift-Ctrl-G to ungroup all objects.
Now, I would click on Select and Transform objects button
then Hold Shift Key while I try to select desired objects, but I am unable to draw selection around those objects. If I start my selection process close to my desired objects, nothing happens. If i start to draw my selection box outside any objects(that is outside drawing) i can select my objects, but in the process select many unneeded objects on the way. What I can do, but which is very painful, is use Edit Paths by Nodes button
and select individual objects with mouse while holding shift key. This way I can grab about 3-4 objects at a time then Cut and Paste them to blank drawing and then repeat the action, painful it is because, assembling again with same alignment is close to impossible..What easy method am I missing?
If there is way to use something like Free Select Tool (as in Gimp and other programs) it would be great, but even a square area selector would be perfectly fine.
