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Selecting sheet metal objects

The Select tool on the Sheet Metal tab works much like the standard Select tool, with the following differences:

• The tools on the Sheet Metal tab recognize junctions, bends, bend reliefs, and forms first, then edges and points when you scroll the mouse wheel to select the underlying entities.
• Your selection is now automatically converted from faces to junctions, bend reliefs, or forms when you switch to the Sheet Metal tab and the PullTool used to distort or deform geometry. Use the Pull tool to offset, extrude, revolve, sweep, draft, and blend faces; or to round, chamfer, or extrude edges. When converting a sketch to 3D, pulling a line creates a surface and pulling a surface creates a solid., Select, or MoveA tool used to translate or rotate geometry. tool is active. The selection is converted back to faces when you switch to a different tab.
• You can box-select sheet metal objects. For example, to select a corner relief, box-select all of the faces in the corner relief. If you box-select any of the faces from right to left, the entire sheet metal object is also selected, even if you have not fully enclosed the object within the selection box.
• Only the tool guides and options that are appropriate for sheet metal are displayed.

Shortcut keys work for all of the tools on both tabs. For example, you can press S to activate the Select tool from either the Design2D or 3D model that contains at least one top-level component. tab or the Sheet Metal tab.