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Selection Rollout (Polymesh) 1027
With Shrink and Grow, you can add or remove neighboring
elements from the edges of your c urrent selection. This works
at any sub-object level.
Ring—Expands an edge selection by selecting al l
edges p ara llel to the selected edges. Ring applies
only to edge and border selections.
Ring selection adds to the selection all the edges that are
parallel to the ones selected or iginally.
Tip: After ma king a ring selection, you can use
Connect to subdivide the associated polygons into
new edge loo ps.
[R ing Shif t]—The spinner next to
the Ring button lets you move the selec tion in
either direction to other edges in the same ring;
thatis,toneighboring,paralleledges.Ifyouhave
a loop selected, you can use this function to select
a neighboring loop. Applies only to Edge and
Border sub-object lev els.
Left: Original loop selection
Upper right: Ri ng Shift up moves selection outward ( from
center of model).
Lower right: Ring Shift down moves selection inward (toward
center of model).
To expand the selection in the chosen direction,
Ctrl +click the up or down spinner button. To
shrink the selection in the chosen direction,
Alt +click the up or down spinner button.
Loop—Expands the selection as far as possible, in
alignment with selected edges.
Loop applies only to edge and b order select ions,
and propagates only through four-way junct ions.
Loop selection extends your current edge selection by adding
all the edges aligned to the ones selected originally.
[Loop Shif t ]—The spinner next to
the Loop button lets you move the selection in
either direction to other edges in the same loop;
that is, to neighboring , alig ned edges. If you have a