Selecting entities in a model

The Model tab > Selection panel contains the following:

Type:

• Select All — Click to select all the entities in all the models.
• Select Wireframes — Click to select all the wireframe entities in the models.
• Select Surfaces — Click to select all the surface entities in the models.
• Select by Colour — Click to select model components by their colour. This displays the Selection dialog.
• Deselect All — Click to deselect everything in all the models.
• Select Duplicate Components — Click to select duplicate components. If you then click Model tab > Edit panel > Delete Selected, the duplicates are deleted leaving a model with no duplicates.
• Deselect Duplicate Components — Click to deselect duplicate components in the current selection. If you select the components that you want, but think that there may be duplicates, you can use the Deselect Duplicate Components command to ensure that no duplicate components are selected. The duplicate components are not deleted, but only removed from the selection. This enables you to create your toolpath (such as swarf machining) without any problems.
• Select Visible Reversed Components — Click to select the reversed components in the current view orientation.

  For example, reversed components not selected appears as:

  

  Using the option, the selected reversed components appear as:

  

  You can use this with Reverse Selected (on the Model context menu) to reverse all the incorrectly oriented surfaces. The quality of the selection depends on the quality of the model. When using this option, if there are gaps in surfaces which reveal inside surfaces, those surfaces are also selected.

• Select Undercut Components — Click to select any surface which is undercut.
• Select Concave Radii— Click to display the Select Concave Radii dialog.