To select an object, choose the Object mode and click its surface. To pick and drag an object in a window view, just click it and move the mouse while holding down the mouse button. Picking a new object automatically deselects any previously selected object. Picking can be performed in any view, perspective view included.
An object can also be selected within the hierarchy browser by simply clicking it. This is very useful especially when objects coincide or in complex scenes.
In order to understand how solidThinking works, you should remember that an object could be made of one or more entities (for example, a cube is formed by six entities called faces).
To represent the status of an object, solidThinking uses the following colors:
Blue. Object is not selected.
Red/Magenta. Object is selected. The red color is applied to the selected entity, magenta to the non-selected entity. When the entity is represented in magenta you cannot delete, copy, or cut it, but you can apply any other object transformation.
Dark green. Object is involved in the Construction Tree of the selected object (for more details on the Construction Tree, click here).
For multiple selections, pick the objects while holding down the Ctrl key.
Hold down the mouse button and drag in the view to select any object included in a selection box. To force selection box even if you are over an object or a hotSpots (thus avoiding to activate a translation), hold down Ctrl + Shift and drag with the mouse.
To select an entity (and not the whole object), pick it while holding down the Alt key. Consider a NURBS curve, for example: portions of different order can characterize it. To select an entity and not the entire curve, pick it while holding down the Alt key.
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