SelectionFilter

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Selection Filter

The SelectionFilter command allows to change or script selection filter settings.

Selection Filter options

Points (Points/Vertices)

Restricts the selection to point objects.

Polysurfaces

Restricts selection to polysurface objects.

Lights

Restricts selection to light objects.

Point clouds

Restricts selection to point cloud objects.

Curves

Restricts the selection to curve objects.

Meshes

Restricts the selection to mesh objects.

SubDs

Restricts the selection to SubD objects.

Blocks

Restricts selection to block instances.

Hatches

Restricts selection to hatch objects.

Surfaces

Restricts selection to surface objects.

Annotations

Restricts the selection to Dimensions, Leaders, Dots, and Text.

Control points

Restricts the selection basically to any points that can be turned on.

For example, curve control points or edit points.

Others

Restricts the selection to any object types not listed above.

Disable

Turns off selection filters.

Checking all checkboxes also turns off selection filters.

Sub-objects (When enabled)

Click to select a sub-object. Use Ctrl(CMD)+Shift+click to select the top object.

Points/Vertices

Restricts selection to points and polysurface/mesh/SubD vertices.

Curves/Edges

Restricts selection to sub-curves, polysurface/mesh/SubD edges.

Surfaces/Faces

Restricts selection to polysurface/mesh/SubD faces.

Examples

To select only red points

Enable Points only.
Use the SelColor command to select red objects.
Only red points are selected.

To window-select only curves

Enable Curves only.
Window select objects.
Only curves within the selection window are selected.

One-shot selection filters

You can restrict selection only for the next selection operation.

Example

Select the One Shot radio button on the Selection Filter popup.
Click the Curves box.
Select objects.

Only curves will be selected. The filter then returns to the previous state.

Control actions

To clear / enable all filters

Right-click Disable.

Select sub-parts with a command-line filter

Command-line selection filters work on a more limited set of sub-objects for commands that ask you to select objects after the command starts (post-select). These commands let you use filters to pick a sub-part of an object or specific objects rather than the whole object.