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Select items using shortcuts.
Type:
Tutorial
Length:
3 min.
Transcript
00:03
The selection tools in Alias are here on the Pick palette.
00:06
And the two key tools are Pick Object and Pick Nothing.
00:10
And we use these so often that they're also on
00:12
the marking menus that pop up at the cursor position
00:16
when I use Shift + Ctrl with the left mouse button.
00:19
And these can be very quick to use once you learn the north-south positions.
00:24
So let's use Pick Object by releasing the mouse.
00:27
And up here, the prompt line says click on some geometry.
00:31
So I can click on an edge,
00:33
in the middle of a surface, or I can use a box-select,
00:37
and then I just click again if I need to unpick.
00:41
So the selected items are highlighted in the scene.
00:44
And then over here on the Control Panel,
00:46
there's also a tally of what I've got selected.
00:50
I can use the Pick Nothing tool to deselect everything
00:53
and that's a momentary tool.
00:54
So you'll notice up here that we're staying in Pick Object,
00:58
that's a continuous tool.
00:60
So I can now just keep selecting.
01:02
And this time if I do a click-release on this boundary,
01:05
then the pick chooser list pops up
01:07
and I can check which one I want and just pick it from the list.
01:12
And if I come and click over here where there are four items
01:16
and you'll see the one I've already selected has the blue check mark,
01:19
so I can then just add another one to the selection.
01:24
Another useful tool is Pick Component
01:27
and that can be used to pick elements in a group,
01:30
but it can also be set up as a filter.
01:32
So if I have a look at Pick Curves on the marking menu,
01:36
you can see that it's just the Pick Component tool set to curves only.
01:41
So if I now drag-select across here, I've only picked these four curves.
01:45
And it's the same with Pick Surface, it just selects the four surfaces instead.
01:52
Another important tool is Pick Control Vertex
01:55
and that will appear on your marking menu as Pick CV or Pick Vertex.
01:60
And I can just click on a point
02:02
or do a small drag-select.
02:05
But the important thing about CVs is that
02:07
I can only select them if they're displayed.
02:09
So on this wheel,
02:10
I can't work with CVs until I go over to
02:13
the Control Panel here and turn on the CV display.
02:17
And then now I can do Pick Nothing
02:19
and then use the Pick
02:20
CV tool to select the CVs I want to sculpt with.
Video transcript
00:03
The selection tools in Alias are here on the Pick palette.
00:06
And the two key tools are Pick Object and Pick Nothing.
00:10
And we use these so often that they're also on
00:12
the marking menus that pop up at the cursor position
00:16
when I use Shift + Ctrl with the left mouse button.
00:19
And these can be very quick to use once you learn the north-south positions.
00:24
So let's use Pick Object by releasing the mouse.
00:27
And up here, the prompt line says click on some geometry.
00:31
So I can click on an edge,
00:33
in the middle of a surface, or I can use a box-select,
00:37
and then I just click again if I need to unpick.
00:41
So the selected items are highlighted in the scene.
00:44
And then over here on the Control Panel,
00:46
there's also a tally of what I've got selected.
00:50
I can use the Pick Nothing tool to deselect everything
00:53
and that's a momentary tool.
00:54
So you'll notice up here that we're staying in Pick Object,
00:58
that's a continuous tool.
00:60
So I can now just keep selecting.
01:02
And this time if I do a click-release on this boundary,
01:05
then the pick chooser list pops up
01:07
and I can check which one I want and just pick it from the list.
01:12
And if I come and click over here where there are four items
01:16
and you'll see the one I've already selected has the blue check mark,
01:19
so I can then just add another one to the selection.
01:24
Another useful tool is Pick Component
01:27
and that can be used to pick elements in a group,
01:30
but it can also be set up as a filter.
01:32
So if I have a look at Pick Curves on the marking menu,
01:36
you can see that it's just the Pick Component tool set to curves only.
01:41
So if I now drag-select across here, I've only picked these four curves.
01:45
And it's the same with Pick Surface, it just selects the four surfaces instead.
01:52
Another important tool is Pick Control Vertex
01:55
and that will appear on your marking menu as Pick CV or Pick Vertex.
01:60
And I can just click on a point
02:02
or do a small drag-select.
02:05
But the important thing about CVs is that
02:07
I can only select them if they're displayed.
02:09
So on this wheel,
02:10
I can't work with CVs until I go over to
02:13
the Control Panel here and turn on the CV display.
02:17
And then now I can do Pick Nothing
02:19
and then use the Pick
02:20
CV tool to select the CVs I want to sculpt with.
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