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Selection tricks

Selection tricks - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Selection tricks

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- [Instructor] In this movie, I'm gonna show you some tricks for working with selections. Now, in SolidWorks, we have two different options. We have a green box selection as well as a blue box selection. So if you click on the upper left-hand corner and you drag out a box, notice it's a light blue color. And what happens here is if I go over some objects, only the objects that are fully enclosed by that box, like this box over here, as well as this top line here, will be selected. Let's do it one more time. Come down here, I'm gonna go ahead and go over these other items over here and notice they don't get selected because it didn't fully enclose those items. Now, alternatively, if you click on their lower right-hand corner and move up to the upper left-hand corner, notice this box is green. Now anything that I go over or touch, notice I'm not completely going around this big circle, I'm only going to halfway around it. Those things will all be selected. So because I'm using a green…

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