Selection Filters Toolbar

The Select Filters toolbar allows you to limit the type of entity that may be picked to one or more of the geometry entity types in the Viewport window. Entity types that are not included in the filter will not be selectable while that filter is active. Note that the selection filters are not active during geometry creation.

The first three buttons toggle filtering, clear all filters and set all filters. The initial default is all filters selected and filtering toggled off.

- Toggles entity filtering on and off, retaining any previous filter settings.

- Clears all filters and turns entity filtering off.

- Selects all filters and turns filtering on if it is turned off.

The next eight buttons toggle selection of geometry entities. If they are pressed when filtering is toggled off, filtering is toggled on and any other filters are de-selected. If they are pressed when filtering is toggled on, filter selection is toggled and other filters are left as is.

The final button controls visible entity picking – you may want to be able to only pick entities that are visible in which case you would turn visible entity picking on. Selecting shaded view and wireframe view without hidden lines will automatically turn visible entity picking on. Selecting wireframe view will turn it off.