Single Select - Select Single Select to select a single part, surface, cutting plane etc. in TransMagic.

 

 

Window Select - Select Window Select to draw a rectangular window around a collection of objects in a document and select them all at once.

 

 

Set Color Filter - The Set Color Filter function enables you to select a Color filter for selecting parts of a certain color.  This is especially useful when you bring in a surface model assembly that contains many parts of different colors that need to be stitched into solids.  You must first select a part with the color you want to filter.  Then click the Click the Window Select By Color function to draw a rectangular window around a collection of objects.  The Window Select By Color function will only select and highlight the parts whose color match that specified by the Set Color Filter function.

 

 

Window Select By Color - The Window Select By Color function will enable you to select and highlight parts of a certain color.  First you must set the color for filtering using the Set Color Filter function.  Then click the Click the Window Select By Color function to draw a rectangular window around a collection of objects.  The Window Select By Color function will only select and highlight the parts whose color match that specified by the Set Color Filter function.

 

 

Delete Selection - After first selecting a part or multiple parts with either the Single or Window Select function, click the Delete Selection function permanently from the display.

Note: You can also use the Delete key on your keyboard to invoke the Delete Selection function.

 

 

Zoom to Selection - After first selecting anything with the Single Select Tool or the Window Select function, select the Zoom To Selection function and the view will update to contain all the selected item(s) centered in the view.

 

 

Select All - The Select All function will as the name suggests select all currently displayed entities.

 

 

Deselect All - The Deselect All function will as the name suggests deselect anything that is currently selected in the document.

 

 

Group Selection - After first selecting a collection of models using the Single Select Tool or Window Select Tool, then click the Group Selection function to combine the parts into a single selectable part.  This is very helpful when "piecing together" groups of surfaces that belong to a single part for the eventual purpose of stitching them together with Lite Repair.

 

 

Ungroup Selection - To ungroup a collection of parts that have been group simply select the group with the Single Select Tool, then click the Ungroup Selection function. This will separate this collection of "lumps" into individual parts that can be selected individually.

 

 

Hide Selection - After first selecting a part or multiple parts with either the Single or Window Select function, click the Hide Selection function to hide the part(s) from the view.  You can use the Show Selection function to show the part(s) again later.  If the Assembly Browser is open the name of the part will read as "(Hide)" in front of the part name.

 

 

Show Selection - To show a part that has been hidden you must first open the Assembly Browser via the Tools->Assembly Browser menu function.  Select a part labeled "(Hide)" and then select the Show Selection function to add the part back to the display.

 

 

Show All Hidden Entities - This function will show all currently Hidden entities. 

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