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Select by painting

The Using Paint 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, and in the radial menu. 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.

This select mode enables you to select faces, edges, and sketch curves in the Design windowArea in the user interface that displays your model or assembly. Also known as Workspace. by "painting" faces and edges that are adjacent to each other. As you paint, objects are highlighted to help you see exactly what will be selected.

In the animation below, paint mode is used with the selection filter to select only the edges of the lower box. Edges are selected as the mouse moves over them. You can release the mouse button at any time to select the highlighted faces or edges.

To select by painting

1. Click the arrow beneath the Select tool and click Using Paint, or click and hold in the Design window to activate the radial menu and then select Paint.

2. (Optional) Use the Selection FilterSee Selection filter in the status bar to change the type of objects that will be selected.

   The Smart option is enabled by default and whenever you switch to another tool. Select Smart to select the highest checked item in the list that is found in the boxed, lassoed, or painted area. Drawing a box or freeform shape selects objects in the following order:

   • In a Design Window: FaceSide or other surface of a solid. Some examples are the inside surface of a hole or the six sides of a rectangular solid. See Surface., Edge3D object composed of a single outside boundary of a feature. A line sketched in 2D becomes an edge when you pull your sketch into 3D., Sketch, AnnotationInformation you can add to a drawing, such as notes, dimensions, geometric tolerances, center marks, and Bills of Materials., PlaneConstruction geometry consisting of a flat surface. Planes can be used for a 2D sketch, section view of a model, a neutral plane in a draft feature., AxisStraight line that an object rotates around or that objects are regularly arranged around. See Alignment axis., PointSingle location in the sketch grid. 2-D object that has no height, width, or length. The origin, an axis, and a vertex are examples of points. Use the Point tool to sketch a point on the sketch grid. Points are useful as a dimensional reference, for splitting, and for creating a point on a line or curve through which you want to draw a three-point circle.

   • In a Drawing Window: Annotation, Sketch, Face, Edge, Plane, Axis, Point

   Deselect Smart to select all the selected object types. Click to select or clear the types of objects you want to select.

3. Click on the first object you want to select and hold the mouse button.

4. Drag the mouse onto adjacent faces or edges that you want to add to the selection.

   The objects that will be selected are highlighted as you move over them with the mouse.

   If you hold Ctrl you can move the mouse over an object without selecting it, or move the mouse over a selected object to deselect it.

5. Release the mouse button to complete the selection.

   The objects are selected when you release the mouse button.

Filtering your selection

Filter the selection using the Selection Filter control in the status bar, as shown in the image below. The Smart option controls how objects are selected when you use the Box, Lasso, or Paint selection modes to select objects in the design area:

• Smart checked on will only select the highest checked item in the list that is currently in the selection area.

• Smart checked off will select all of the checked items in the list that are currently in the selection area.

When you switch to another tool, the filter selections are remembered but the Smart option is enabled. If you disable the Smart option, the previously checked options will be selected.