Sketching Mode
The following is displayed when you use the right mouse button in the Sketching mode. The context menu lists Select Loops/Chains when you are selecting, not when you are drawing. This works for 2D and 3D edges. Instead of selecting a single edge, it will select the entire loop of edges or, if the edge does not belong to a loop, the entire edge chain.
The Selection Filter options include:
Modeling Mode
The following is displayed when you use the right mouse button in the Modeling mode.
In the Modeling mode you may use two unique features:
Select Loops/Chains: This works for 2D and 3D edges of Solid or Surface bodies. Instead of selecting a single edge, it will select the entire loop of edges or, if the edge does not belong to a loop, the entire edge chain.
Select Smooth Chains: This works only for 3D edges and works the same as Select Loops/Chains except that the chain is defined by edges that are tangent to each other at their endpoints (that is, no jagged intersections allowed).
The following image depicts (left to right) a loop, chain, and smooth chain.
Because the selection filter buttons on the toolbar can represent more than one type of filter, the status of the detailed filters can be checked through the right mouse button context menu. For example when you are in the modeling mode, the following image shows that both Vertex and PF Point filters are on.
The Selection Filter options include:
Selection topics: