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Component selection

The Select Components mode is found in the menu under the Select tool in the Edit ribbon group on the Design2D or 3D model that contains at least one top-level component. tab. You can access this menu while almost any tool is active. For example, if you want to change selection modes while 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. tool is active, just click the arrow under Select. The Pull tool will remain active.

In this selection mode, as you mouse over geometry, when you are over an object that is in a component, that component will be pre-highlighted.

Pre-highlighting while box-selecting shows just the compopnent bounding boxes. No faces, edges, etc. are pre-highlighted