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Selection set

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- [Instructor] In this video we're gonna be learning about a selection set. Now a selection set is just a whole bunch of selections that we can group together and then save those to our feature manager. Let me show you how it works. I'm gonna go ahead and choose my first surface here, then I'm gonna spin the model around, and I'm gonna go ahead and just hold down control and select a few of these other surfaces here. All right, go ahead and spin it around again, and there you can see, we've got all these outside surfaces selected. Now if I click anywhere else outside of those surfaces, what will happen is all those will become de-selected. So if I wanna save these, I can right click on one of these surfaces. Make sure you're hovering over the surface itself, right click, come down here to selection tools, and then come over here to save selection. All right, now notice over here on the left, in the feature manager, notice you have this new folder called selection sets. So if I click…

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