From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Tips & Tricks

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Invert Selection

Invert Selection

- [Instructor] Let's talk about Invert Selection. Now, maybe something like drawing a window around a hole is not very impressive. But check this out. If you actually right-click after you've selected something, you can come up here to Selection Tools and we have this thing called Invert Selection. And so, because I've already selected just that one hole, if I hit Invert Selection, it's going to go ahead and draw the box around and do everything outside of that one box that I drew, and go ahead and select all those other holes. So notice everything is highlighted here, all the other holes are selected besides the one I selected. Let's try it one more time. I'm going to draw a box around just one of the holes, then right-click anywhere outside of the face, and go to Selection Tools, Invert Selection, and now it selects everything on the outside. So pretty handy, especially if you are just trying to make a very simple…

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