General Selection Interface

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Purpose: This panel provides a broad range of options for selecting model entities and is used extensively from within many of LS-PrePost’s other main interfaces.

general selection

Controls:

  • rbs Pick – Select/Deselect a single entity
  • rb Area – Select/Deselect entities inside/outside a user defined area
  • rb Poly – Select/Deselect entities inside/outside a user defined region
  • rb Sel1 – Pick 1 entity (only 1 will be in buffer)

  • rb Sphe – Select/Deselect entities inside/outside a user defined sphere
  • rb Box – Select/Deselect entities inside/outside a user defined box
  • rb Prox – Select/Deselect entities inside/outside the proximity of a part
  • rb Circ – Select/Deselect entities inside/outside a user defined circle
  • rb Frin – Select/Deselect entities inside/outside a fringe plot range
  • rb Plan – Select/Deselect entities inside/outside a geometric plane

  • rbs In – Select/Deselect entities inside the area/polygon
  • rb Out – Select/Deselect entities outside the area/polygon

  • rbs Add – Add entities to selection
  • rb Rm – Remove entities from selection

 

 Enter entity IDs (for nodes/elements/parts)

  • cb Label – Turn label on/ff for new selection

  • cbc Prop – Propagate selection with seed element
  • cb Adap – Propagate across constrained adaptive element

  • Ang: Set feature angle for propagation

  • cb 3Dsurf – Turn on to select outer surface (only for solid elements)
Adjac.

 Select adjacent elements

Attach

 Select attached elements

Clear

 Clear all selections

Save

 Save entities to buffer

Load

 Load saved entities from buffer

Desel

 Deselect last selected entity

Whole

 Select all entities within model

All Vis

 Select all visible entities

Rev

 Reverse entity selection

  • rbs ByNode – Make node based selection
  • rb ByElem – Make element based selection
  • rb ByPart – Make part based selection
  • rb BySet – Make set based selection
  • rb ByEdge – Make edge based selection
  • rb BySegm – Make segment based selection
  • rb Point – Select points
  • rb Line – Select lines
  • rb Surf – Select surfaces