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Select Other

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- [Instructor] For this tip, we're going to be talking about Select Other. Now, right over here I've got a part, and I can choose the outside surfaces pretty well, and if I spin my part around, I can kind of get access to the inside here as well. So you have access to most things on this part without too much difficulty, but sometimes if you have maybe a complicated assembly, you have a whole bunch of things inside of other things, but you know where something is, you can use what's called Select Other. So right over here, if I choose the outside surface, it just selects that surface. But right over here, if you click on that first icon, which is in this first icon on the second row, is going to be Select Other. As soon as I do that, notice it hides the outside surface, and I can choose, hey, the inside, no problem. And there I've selected that. If I spin it around, you can see that it's actually been selected. So if I choose Select Other at any point in time, it will allow me to…

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