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Lasso Selection

Lasso Selection - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Lasso Selection

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- [Instructor] Let's talk about lasso select. Now, most people are familiar with the regular rectangular selection box. If I select something like this, everything inside the box will be selected. If I go the other direction, notice the box turns green, and everything inside the box will be selected. But if I use only a part of it, anything that's inside of that or anything that touches that lasso will be selected. And if I go the other way, which is the blue box, only things that are completely, 100% inside the box will be selected. So, again, blue box, only the entity fully selected. If you go the other direction, from bottom right to upper left, anything that touches the box will be selected. Well, we also have the ability to do a lasso select. So right-click anywhere up here, come down here to selection tools, and instead of box selection, come down here to lasso selection. Now what I can do is I can draw this fun…

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