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Selection & Manipulation Selecting, moving, resizing, rotating, duplicating, and organizing nodes in OpenPencil.

Selection & Manipulation

Select objects to move, resize, rotate, duplicate, and organize them on the canvas.

Selecting

  • Click a node to select it (deselects everything else)
  • Shift + click to add or remove a node from the current selection
  • Marquee drag — drag on empty canvas to draw a selection rectangle; all intersecting nodes are selected on release
  • ⌘ A — select all nodes on the current page
  • Click empty canvas — deselect all

Moving

  • Drag a selected node to move it (all selected nodes move together)
  • Arrow keys — nudge selected nodes by 1 px
  • Shift + arrow keys — nudge by 10 px

Resizing

Selected nodes show 8 resize handles (4 corners + 4 edge midpoints). Drag any handle to resize.

  • Shift + drag a corner handle to constrain proportions

Rotating

Hover just outside a corner handle to see the rotation cursor. Drag to rotate.

  • Shift + drag snaps rotation to 15° increments

Duplicating

  • Alt + drag (⌥ + drag on Mac) — duplicate the selected node and move the copy
  • ⌘ D — duplicate in place

Deleting

Press Backspace or Delete to remove all selected nodes.

Z-Order

Change the stacking order of nodes within their parent:

  • ] — bring to front (top of sibling list)
  • [ — send to back (bottom of sibling list)

Visibility & Lock

  • ⇧ ⌘ H — toggle visibility. Hidden nodes don't render but stay in the layers panel.
  • ⇧ ⌘ L — toggle lock. Locked nodes can't be selected or moved on canvas.

Move to Page

Move selected nodes to a different page via the context menu. The nodes are reparented under the target page's canvas.

Sections

Drawing a section on the canvas automatically adopts overlapping sibling nodes as children of the new section.

Keyboard Shortcuts

Action Mac Windows / Linux
Select all ⌘ A Ctrl + A
Duplicate ⌘ D Ctrl + D
Duplicate + move ⌥ + drag Alt + drag
Delete ⌫ / Delete Backspace / Delete
Nudge 1 px Arrow keys Arrow keys
Nudge 10 px ⇧ + Arrow keys Shift + Arrow keys
Bring to front ] ]
Send to back [ [
Toggle visibility ⇧ ⌘ H Shift + Ctrl + H
Toggle lock ⇧ ⌘ L Shift + Ctrl + L

Tips

  • Use the Layers & Pages panel to see and reorder nodes when they overlap.
  • See Context Menu for additional actions like grouping and component creation.