Selecting solid features and faces

To select solid features and faces, rather than the whole solid, use the solid selection options.

Note: Selecting solid features and faces of a solid are mutually exclusive.

1. Select a solid.
2. Click Solid Tools tab > Selection panel, and choose from:
   • Face — to select individual solid faces.
   • Continuous — to select a region of continuous solid faces.
   • Concave — to select all solid faces in a concave region.
   • Convex — to select all solid faces in a convex region.
   • Feature — to select solid features.
   • Discrete Lasso — to select solid faces by drawing a discrete lasso.
   • Continuous Lasso — to select solid faces by drawing a continuous lasso.
   • Smart Feature — to open the Smart Feature Selector dialog.
   • Color — to select all solid faces that are the same color.
3. Move the cursor over a model to highlight the faces that you want to select, and click to select them.
   • When a solid that contains features is selected, the Feature selection mode is automatically used.
   • If the solid has no history tree, Face selection mode is used and Feature selection is unavailable.
   • Selecting features from the Tree browser switches the mode to Feature selection mode.
   • Use the mouse to make/amend selection as follows:

     Replaces the current selection.

     Toggles the item into/out of selection.

     Adds the item to the selection.

     Displays a feature edit dialog.

Tip: In addition to using the Solid Tools tab > Selection panel buttons to switch between feature and face selection modes, there is a click-again option. Click-again is a slow double-click. It is set to four times the MS Windows time for a double-click. So, if the MS Windows double-click speed is 0.5 seconds, a click-again is 2 seconds.