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How To Use The Draw Tool

Draw a shape on your campaign map and act on every unit inside it at once — the four action groups and how to work safely.

Written by Zachary Cuva

The draw tool is the most powerful thing on the Plan tab. Draw a shape on the map and you can act on every unit inside it at once — tag a whole neighbourhood, copy a city's units to another campaign, or clear out an area you no longer want.

Anything you would otherwise do unit by unit, this does in one action.


Drawing A Selection

  1. Open the campaign's Plan tab.

  2. Draw a shape around the units you want on the map.

  3. A panel opens showing how many units are in bounds, followed by the actions available.

Check that unit count before doing anything. It is the only confirmation you get that your shape caught what you intended, and several of the actions cannot be undone.


Filter First

The draw tool respects your filters. Units inside your shape that do not match your current filter are not affected.

That combination is what makes it precise. Filtering to Available digital units and then drawing around downtown acts on exactly those — not on every unit in the area.


What The Panel Offers

The actions are grouped into four sections.

Section

Actions

Curate

Favorite and unfavorite units in bulk, and mark or unmark them as recommended.

Tags

Apply tags to everything in bounds, or Clear Tags to strip them.

Organize

Create Flights, Copy Units, Copy Units + Tags, Copy POIs, Save Custom Bounds and Add Units to Package.

Remove

Remove POIs and Remove Units. Both are destructive.

*Note: The Remove section is the one to be careful with. Removing units takes them off the campaign, and the only confirmation is the unit count at the top of the panel — so read it before you click.


Working Efficiently

A pattern that works well on a large plan:

  1. Filter to the units you are interested in.

  2. Draw around one market or neighbourhood.

  3. Check the unit count.

  4. Tag them, so you can return to exactly that set later without redrawing.

Tagging as you go turns a one-off selection into something reusable, which is why it is worth doing even when you are only exploring.

**Note: Close the panel without acting and nothing changes. Drawing a shape is always safe on its own.

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