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If selection preview is turned on, you can cycle through the objects by rolling
over the object on top to highlight it, or you can press and hold Shift and
then press the Spacebar. When the required object is highlighted, left-click to
select it.
If selection preview is turned off, hold down Shift and Spacebar at a Select
Objects prompt while you left-click to cycle through the objects until the one
you want is highlighted, and then press Enter . Press Esc to turn off cycling.
Remove Selection from Objects
Remove objects from the current selection set by holding down Shift and
selecting them again.
See also:
■
Modify 3D Subobjects on page 1186
■ Modify Composite Solids and Surfaces on page 1205
To select a single object
1 At the Select Objects prompt of any command, move the rectangular
pickbox cursor so that the object that you want to select is highlighted.
2 Click the object.
The object you selected is highlighted.
3 Press Enter to end object selection.
NOTE If the PICKFIRST system variable is set to 1 (noun-verb selection), you
can select objects before entering a command.
To change the size of the pickbox cursor
1 Click Tools menu ➤ Options.
2 On the Selection tab, under Pickbox Size, move the pickbox size slider
until the pickbox is the size you want to use.
3 Click OK.
To cycle through objects for selection
1 At the Select Objects prompt, hold down Shift + Spacebar. Click as near
as possible to the object you want.
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