From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Utilities Suite
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Power Select - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial
From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Utilities Suite
Power Select
- [Instructor] When working in SolidWorks, sometimes we want to make a lot of selections at once, and this isn't the easiest thing in the world. SolidWorks does give us some great tools to select pockets and things like that, for example if I go to do a Delete Face Feature and I go in and select this pocket, you know, I can have these outer and inner loops selected, things like that. But if I wanted to select all the faces at once, there's not a great tool for that. What I can use is going up to the SolidWorks Utilities Tools and use Power Select. This does give me the ability to select multiple things that are alike for some reason or another, all at once. So let's see what kind of filtering ability we have. We go up to Tools and go to Power Select and click on that, and you can see here we have a various number of controls available to us, so we can select what we're filtering by, so you can do it by loops, faces, features, edges. The filters are Edge Connectivity, Edge Angle, so…