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You can leave this dialog up while you work in
your scene, ma king it easier to select objects. The
selection options are the same as those in the Select
Objects dialog (page 1–78).
You can display the Selection Floater only from
the To ols menu. If you use the
H key during
selection, the modal Select Objects dialog appears
instead.
SelectionRegionFlyout
Main toolbar > Selection Region flyout
Selection Region flyout
The Selection Region flyout provides access to
five methods you can use to select objects by
region. Clicking the Selection Region button
displays a flyout containing the Rectangle (page
1–89), Circular (page 1–89), Fence (page 1–90),
Lasso (page 1–90),andPaint (page 1–91) Selection
Region buttons.
For the first four methods, you can select either
objects tha t are completely within the selection
region (window method), or objects that are
w ithin or touched by the selection shape (crossing
method). Tog gle between the window and crossing
selection methods by using the Wi ndow/Crossing
Selection button (page 1–93) on the Main toolbar.
Note: If you hold down Ctr l while specifying
a region, the affected objects are added to the
current selection. Conversely, if you hold down
Alt while specify ing a region, the affected objects
are removed from the current selection.
Note: The Smart Select command activates the
Select Object (page 1–77) function and, w ith
repeated invocations, cycles through the available
SelectionRegionmethods. Bydefault,Smart
Select is assigned to the
Q key; you can use