Getting Started
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Basics of Modeling
Selecting Elements
14 min
selecting in scene view selecting multiple elements to select an element, click on the desired element in the scene view you can select multiple elements by dragging over them deselecting you can deselect them by clicking in an empty space on the screen using shift and ctrl you can also hold down the shift key to add more elements to the selection or hold down the ctrl key while clicking to deselect elements inspector ( element ) 03 selection icon backface seslect this feature allows you to select faces that are not visible from the current viewpoint camera based select this mode restricts the selection to only the faces, edges, or vertices that are visible from the current camera view border the border tool enables you to select and manipulate the edges that define the boundary of a selected area soft select soft select allows for a gradient based selection, affecting not only the selected element but also those around it with a falloff effect inspector ( selection ) basic modelingmode icon selection all the all tool is a tool that selects all selected elements basic modeling selection all invert the invert tool selects the inverted portion of the selected element basic modeling selection invert isolate the isolate tool is a tool that selects the selected element and its connected parts together basic modeling selection isolate grow the grow tool expands the area of the selected element and is selected if no element is selected , or if there is no more area to expand , it will not work basic modeling selection grow shrink the shrink tool is a tool that shrinks an area on selected elements it does not work if there is no element selected basic modeling selection shrink loop the loop tool is a tool that allows you to select by concatenating the selected element with elements in the aligned direction basic modeling selection loop ring the ring tool is a tool that selects elements parallel to the selected element basic modeling selection ring border the border tool is a tool that selects all the edges of an object basic modeling selection border for more information, please see the link below selection group docid\ qfrhkd7jag4gky2oydf1m