Find out how to select products, subassemblies and subentities such as faces and edges.
Default Selection
The default selection mode allows you to select products in your model.
Left-click a product to select it; left-click another product to add it to your selection. Selected products will be indicated with a green outline; the rest of the model will appear slightly transparent and greyed out.
Left-click an already selected product to remove it from your selection.
Press Escape or click the Clear selection button on the left-hand side of the screen to clear your selection.
To select a product that is behind another product from the current camera angle, repeatedly hit the Tab key to cycle through products behind your cursor.
Hit Ctrl + A to select everything in the current scope.
Use a selection window to select an entire portion of the model view at once: click, hold and drag the left mouse button to create a selection window. A blue selection window (drag from left to right) will select all products that fall completely within the bounded area. A green selection window (drag from right to left) will select all products that fall within the bounded area or cross the edges of the bounded area.
When working with assemblies, there are several ways to select a desired level in the assembly from the model view. To select subassemblies in the model view, double-click to dig one level deeper, triple-click to dig another level deeper and so on. Alternatively, click and hold the left mouse button until you reach the level of the assembly you want to select. Finally, if you are only interested in the lowest level of the assembly, hold Ctrl and left-click.
Deep Select
The Deep Select mode allows you to select faces, edges and bodies for direct manipulation of the geometry.
To enable Deep Select, click the Select icon on the left-hand side of the screen (note that this option is not available in read-only mode). As a visual cue to indicate that Deep Select is active, the background color will change to a dark blue.
A black preview of the face or edge you are about to select will be displayed when hovering the cursor over an entity. A selected face or edge will be highlighted in green.
To select an entire body, either individually select all its faces and edges or hold Ctrl and left-click the body.
To select a face or edge that is behind another part from the current camera angle, hit the Tab key to cycle through faces and edges behind your cursor.
Window selection is currently disabled during Deep Select.
Note that the Inspect Panel is currently only supported for products, and not for subentities like faces and edges. Therefore the panel will be empty while in Deep Select mode.