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shortcuts or other user interface items for the
actions Paint Selection Size Up and Paint Selection
Size Down.
Note: Paint Selection Region respects the
Window/Crossing selection toggle (page 1–88)
setting. If the togg le is set to
Select Region Window
(page 1–87)
and the brush is sma ller than an object
or sub-object to be selected, you won’t be able to
selecttheitem.Toresolvethis,enlargethebrush
or choose
Select Region Crossing (page 1–88)
.
Note: With
editable poly (page 1–1012)
and
Edit
Poly (page 1–619)
objects, you can a lso paint
soft
selections (page 1–948)
and
deformation (page
1–1022)
.
ThePaintSelectionRegionbutton,availablefrom
the
Selection Region flyout (page 1–80)
,provides
oneoffivemethodsyoucanusetoselectobjects
by region. The other methods are
Rectangular
(page 1–80)
,
Circular (page 1–81)
,
Lasso (page
1–82)
,and
Fence (page 1–81)
.
Procedure
To select by painting a r egion:
1. Choose Paint Selection Region from the
flyout.
2. Drag over the object(s) to select, then release
the mouse button. As you drag, a circle showing
the brush radius appears attached to the mouse.
Note: To cancel the selection, right-click before
you release t he mouse.
3. To change the brush size, righ t-click the
Paint Selection Region button, and then, on
the Preference Settings dialog > General tab
> Scene Selection group, change the
Paint
Selection Brush Size value
.
You can also set keybo ard shortcuts for
changing the brush size. To do s o, use the
Paint S election Size Up and Paint Selection Size
Down action items. See
Main U ser Interface
Shortcuts (p age 3–922)
.
Selection Filter List
Main toolbar > Selection Filter
The Selection Filter list le ts you restrict to s pecific
types and combinations of objects that can be
selected by the select ion tools. For example, if you
choose Cameras, you can select only camer a s with
the selection tools. Other objects do not respond.
When you need to select objects of a certain type,
this is usef ul as a quick method of freezing all other
objects.
Use the drop-down list to select a single filter .
Choose Combos from the drop-down list to use
multiple filters from the
Filter Combinations
dialog (page 1–83)
.
Filter Combinations Dialog
Main toolbar > Selection Filter list > Combos > Filter
Combinations dialog
Use the Filter Combinations dialog to create your
own custom combinations of categories to add to
the
Selection Filters list (page 1–83)
.