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• Select Same Name
Every item with the same name as the selected item will also be selected.
• Select Same Type
Every item of the same type as the selected item will also be selected.
• Select Same (property)
Every item with the same property as the selected item will also be selected. The property can be
anything from Material, Hyperlink or any other searchable property attached to the item.
Note:
Selecting Same (property) works by comparing items' properties. If you have multiple items
selected when you perform a selection command of same name or type etc., all the types, names
and properties of the items in the current selection are compared with all items properties in the
scene. Those matching any of the current items selected will be selected.
Selection and Search Sets
Selection sets are useful for saving a group of items that you might want to regularly perform some action
on, such as hiding or changing transparency. They simply store a group of items for later retrieval. There
is no intelligence behind this set - if the model changes at all, the same items will be selected (assuming
they are still available in the model) when recalling the selection set.
Search sets work in a similar way, except that they save search criteria instead of the results of a
selection, so that you can re-run the search at a later date as and when the model changes. See
Chapter 14, Finding for information on searching the model for items.
Selection and search sets can be named and contain comments. They can also be highlighted with icons
in the main navigation window, so that when you click on one, the selection set is restored to the active
set and all the items within it are re-selected.
Saving Selection and Search Sets
Saving a selection set:
1. Select all the items you want saving.
2. On the Edit menu, click Select > Selection Sets > Add Current Selection.
or
Right-click on the Selection Sets control bar and click Save Current Selection on the shortcut
menu.
Saving a search:
Selecting Items
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