About the Tools Palette

The Tools Palette enables users to select multiple items from the geometry with precision.
The tools available depend on the workbench from which you have accessed the Tools Palette.  No every tool shown below is necessarily available from every workbench.
 

Tools Palette
 
The Tools Palette provides a variety of ways to select elements.  The table below describes each tool in the palette.
Tool Icon Tool Name Tool Use
Selection arrow Move the cursor over a fastener and click.  The selection arrow can only select one element at a time (that is, when you click on a second element, the first is deselected).  You can select more than one element by pressing the control key before clicking.
Rectangle Selection Trap What is completely within the trap is selected.
Intersecting Rectangle Trap Whatever is within or intersected by the trap is selected.
Polygon trap The user creates the trap by clicking on the geometry to create a polygon.  Whatever is within the trap is selected.
Paint stroke trap selection The user moves the cursor over whatever is to be selected.
Outside Rectangle Trap Selection Whatever is completely outside the trap is selected.
Intersecting Outside Trap selection Whatever is outside or intersects the trap is selected.
Selected items
  • If no elements are selected, this box is blank.
  • If one element is selected, this box contains the element name.
  • If multiple elements are selected, this box contains a count of the elements selected.
List of selected items Lists all of the items that have been selected in the Elements list dialog box.

You can deselect a single item within the dialog box by finding the item on the geometry or the PPR tree, pressing the Ctrl key and clicking on the item within the tree.
Finish Finish the selection process. If the selected items box contains an entry before you press this button, the entry disappears once you click Finish .