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Live Selection. Rectangle
Selection.
Lasso Selection. Polygon Selection.
This group of selection tools — Live, Rectangle, Freehand and Polygon Selection — enables you to
select points, edges and polygons in various ways. CINEMA 4D remembers the selection for each
selection tool. When you return to a selection tool, that tool’s previous selection is re-selected.
You can use the selection tools with polygon objects, splines and with some deformation objects such
as the FFD object. The following applies:
Adding to or removing from the selection:
 To add an element to the selection, hold down Shift while you select.
 To deselect a selected element, hold down Ctrl while you use the selection
tool.
In the viewports:
 Selected points, edges or polygons are highlighted red.
Live Selection
Live Selection is like a paintbrush mode where you paint over the points, edges or polygons that you
want to select. Set the size of this ‘selection brush’ using the Radius setting in the Attribute manager.
While holding down the mouse button, the radius can be changed with the mouse wheel.
Rectangle Selection
This tool enables you to select points, edges or polygons by dragging a frame over the elements.
Lasso Selection
Lasso selection behaves like a lasso. Drag to draw a loop around the elements you want to select. As
soon as you release the mouse button, the loop is closed automatically.