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You can select multiple items in the main navigation window using the familiar Windows™ methods of
holding down the Control key while selecting items. This will add them to the current selection.
Alternatively, if the items are already in the current selection, holding down Control while selecting them
again will remove them from the current selection.
To select multiple items using a draggable box:
• On the Edit menu, click Select > Select Box
or
• Click Select Box on the Selection Tools toolbar.
Selection Commands
Selection commands enable you to quickly alter the current selection using logic. You can select multiple
items based on the currently selected items' properties, or quickly invert the set, select everything or
nothing.
Selecting items with selection commands:
1. On the Edit menu, click Select.
2. Choose the required selection command.
Standard selections are:
• Select All
All items contained within the model are selected.
• Select None
Deselects everything in the model.
• Invert Selection
Every selected item becomes deselected and vice versa.
• Selection Sets
Provides you with options to save and recall sets. See “ Selection and Search Sets ”.
• Select Multiple Instances
Selecting an item then selecting Multiple Instances will select all instances (sometimes called
insertions) of that geometry group that occur in the model.
Selecting Items
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