Selecting Items in the 3D Modeler Window
To modify or learn more about an item's properties, you must first select it. All commands you choose while an item is selected are performed on or in reference to the selected item.
What selection mode do you want to use?
- Select Submodels
- Select Objects
- Select Faces
- Select Edges
- Select Vertices
- Select Multi
- Coordinates in the drawing space
- Select By Area including optional filters
- Select by History Tree Group
- Select by Submodel
- Select by intersection error message
- Selecting the Face or Object Behind
Selection menu for:
The Edit>Select Objects menu and Modeler window shortcut menu includes selection for:
- By Name
- By Material
- By Variable
- All Model Objects
- All Non-model Objects
- All Primitive Shapes
- All Non Primitive Shapes
- All Solids
- All Sheets
- All Lines
Selections enabled for features of selected Object:
Some Edit>Extend Selection menu commands are enabled when you select an appropriate object:
- All Object Faces
- All Object Edges
- All Face Edges
- Faces on Plane
- Select Connected Vertices
- Select Connected Edges
- Select Connected Faces
- Select Edge Chain
- Select Face Chain
- Select Sheet Edges
History Tree Icon Menu Selection
You can also right-click History tree icons to Select All for ungrouped:
- Model
- Group
- Solids
- Selected Material, for example copper or air.
- Sheets
- Lines
If selected objects do not display correctly, for some graphics card, you can improve performance by changing settings in the NVIDIA Control Panel application. In the Select a Task tree, navigate to 3D Settings> Manage 3D Settings. Then, under the Global Settings tab, choose Workstation App - Dynamic Streaming from the Global presets drop-down menu.
For more information about graphics cards, see the section Open GL under Installation Prerequisites in the Ansys EM Installation Guide.