Clicking on entities

When the program prompts you to select an entity, simply click on it.

When selecting entities, the program helps you by pre-highlighting the entity under the cursor. This is very useful when there is more than one entity near the selection point (such as when selecting a curve on a surface).

Note that the pre-highlighting of solids depends on the current selection mode:
Note

In order to add successive entities to the selection set, proceed as follows:
  • In pre-selection: hold down the SHIFT or the CTRL keys while selecting the entities to be added to the selection set.
  • In post-selection: just select the new entities to be added to the selection set (no matter whether holding down the SHIFT or CTRL keys or not); any entity you select will be automatically added to it.
Both in the pre-selection and in the post-selection mode, if you use the CTRL key, you can also deselect an entity you previously selected, removing it from the current selection set.

The ESC (Escape) key during pre-selection enables you to clear all entities from the selection set.
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