Pick Visible
Picks or unpicks surfaces and meshes that are visible in a given view when the model is hardware shaded.
Access this tool from the Pick palette:
Pick Visible workflows
Pick or unpick visible objects
The following workflow assumes that Visualization > Hardware Shade or Visualization > Diagnostic Shade has been used to shade your model.
Click in a view window to make it active.
Select the tool.
Select or deselect shaded surfaces and meshes in the view, in the same manner as with Pick Object
, that is:Click the
to pick an inactive object, and unpick an active object.Click the
to replace the content of the pick list with the new selection.Click the
to unpick an object.Hold down the
key to add to the selection.Use a pick box by clicking and dragging.
Pick visible only picks shaded (visible) surfaces and meshes, even when using a pick box. You can adjust the view at any time.
You can click anywhere on the object to pick it, not only on the wireframe.
Note: Geometry that is visible through other geometry with transparent shaders will also be selected.