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To Select with Preselection Highlighting Disabled
After you disable preselection highlighting, you can use one of two following selection methods to select items.
1. If you want to use the Pick selection method to select items, place your cursor in the graphics window, right-click and select Pick from the shortcut menu. You can now select items directly from the graphics window using the standard selection capabilities, such as pressing CTRL to select multiple items. Creo Parametric builds a selection set and indicates the number of items in the set on the Status bar. Notice that you cannot query items by using the Pick selection method.
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Creo Parametric selects this method by default if preselection highlighting is disabled.
2. If you want to use the Query selection method to select items, place your cursor in the graphics window, right-click and select Query from the shortcut menu. Do the following:
Click the area on the model over which the item you want to select is located. The Pick From List dialog box appears listing all items that are directly under your pointer from top (closest to the pointer) to bottom.
Right-click to query the item. Creo Parametric highlights the queried item in the graphics window and in the Pick From List dialog box.
Middle-click to select the item. Creo Parametric builds a selection set and indicates 1 Selected on the Status bar. The Pick From List dialog box also closes and the selected item highlights in the graphics window and on the Model Tree. Notice that you can also click OK from the Pick From List dialog box to select an item.
If you want to select additional items, right-click and select Query from the shortcut menu. Then, press CTRL and click the additional items from the Model Tree. Note that you cannot select additional items in the graphics window or in the Pick From List dialog box when using this selection method.
In the graphics window, right-click and use the shortcut menu commands to perform the preferred action on all selected items.
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After you select an item, Creo Parametric returns to the Pick selection method (the default method). You must select Query from the shortcut menu to continue using this method.
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After the Pick From List dialog box appears, you can move your pointer over a new location and click to change the items on the Pick From List dialog box.
3. Right-click and use the shortcut menu commands or open a feature tool to perform an action on the selected items.
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If you disable preselection highlighting. you cannot use the selection filter.
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Before you begin selecting items, make certain that the correct filter is selected.
You can always click a vacant area in the graphics window to clear any selections.
You can also view the selection set or remove items from the selection set by double-clicking the Selected Items indicator on the Status bar. After the Selected Items dialog box opens to display the selection set, simply select the items to remove and click Remove.
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