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Selection options

 

You can adjust DS Mechanical's selection settings, such as the cursor Hit radius and the tolerance used in Power Selection.

To set selection options

  1. Select DS Mechanical Options from the File menu to display the DS Mechanical Options window.

  2. Click Selection in the navigation panel on the left.

  3. Modify the options on the page.

  4. Click OK to save all your changes and close the window.

General

Hit radius: Type the number of pixels your cursor can be from the object you want to select.

Select edge loops using mouse scroll wheel: This option is ON by default. It allows you to hover over an edge and use the mouse scroll wheel to cycle through the possible loops that include that edge. You can click a pre-highlighted edge loop to select it. If you are using a multitouch machine, you can select edge loops by double-clicking OR double-tapping the first edge of the edge loop you want to select.

Show previous selections with prehighlight hint: This option is OFF by default. If it is enabled, DS Mechanical will remember previous selections that were used for some operation. For example, select several faces and moved them. The next time you select one of the faces, the others will prehighlight.

Power Selection

Automatically calculate Power Selection results: Select this option to automatically display objects in the Selection panel. You do not need to click to search when power selecting. Objects similar to the selected object are automatically displayed in the Related list. This option is on by default.

Power Selection relative tolerance: Type a percentage to change the relative tolerance used when searching in the Selection panel. Enter a non-zero percentage to find objects with similar, but not exactly the same dimensions when power selecting. For example, if you enter 10% in this option field, select a 10 mm radius round in your design, then click in the Selection panel, rounds with a radius between 9 mm and 11 mm will be returned in the All rounds equal to 10 mm results list. The default is 1%. Adjust this value to 0% to detect perfect rounds exactly or increase it to find imported rounds.

Facets

Facets selection granularity: Allows you to control the scope of selection of mesh facets.

Facets paint selection radius: Allows you to control the paint selection radius for selection of mesh facets. The default radius is 10 pixels. The maximum value you can set is 250 pixels.


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