Selecting¶

Selection tools are available in the Select Menu in the header, and the shortcuts listed below:

Menu¶

Box Select: Click and drag to box select UV coordinates. Alternatively, use B to start box selection. See Select Box.
Box Select Pinned: Use the box lasso to select only pinned UV coordinates Ctrl-B.
Circle Select: See Select Circle.
Select/Deselect All: Selects or deselects all UV coordinates A.
Inverse: Inverts the current selection Ctrl-I.
Select Pinned: Selects all pinned UVs Shift-P. See Pinning.
Select Linked: This operator selects all UVs that are connected to currently selected UVs Ctrl-L. This works similarly to the tools in 3D View.
More/Less Ctrl-NumpadPlus, Ctrl-NumpadMinus: Expands/Contracts the selection to/from the adjacent elements of the selection type.
Select Split Y: Cuts apart the selected UVs from the map. Only those UVs which belong to fully selected faces remain selected. As the name implies, this is particularly useful to unlink faces and move them elsewhere. The hotkey is analogous to the mesh Split tool.
Select Overlap: Selects any UVs that are extended over other UVs while also selecting any underlying UVs.

Sync Selection: Turning on the Sync Selection button causes selection of components in the 3D View to sync with their corresponding elements in the UV editor. If off only the selected faces are displayed in the UV editor. These two modes have very different results when transforming components in the UV editor.

Select Modes dependent on the Sync Selection.

Vertex

Select individual vertices.

Edge

Select edges.

Face

Select faces.

Island

Select contiguous groups of faces.

Sticky Selection Mode

This selector lets you enable automatic additional selection.

Shared Vertex: Selects UVs that share a mesh vertex, even if they are in different UV locations.
Shared Location: Selects UVs that are in the same UV location and share a mesh vertex.
Disabled: Disables Sticky Selection. When you move a UV in this mode, each face owns its own UVs, allowing them to be separated.

When selecting UVs or Edges, it behave like Shared Vertex mode above. When selecting Faces, it behaves as in Disabled Stick Selection above.