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xsi5: element selection

Posted: June 21, 2006
Reid6754
How do I select elemetns in xsi?
Posted: June 21, 2006
Ted Town
Well that depends.
What kind of elemts do you want to select?
Points, edges, polygons?
Posted: June 21, 2006
Reid6754
I mean groups of polygons that are connected.
For example if a car is an object and the weel is a part of it.
But no polygons of the weel is connected to the polygon of the car body.
How do I select the wheel polygons
Posted: June 21, 2006
Ted Town
Just select one wheel polygon and then grow the selection until you select the entire wheel.
Just select a polygon on each element you want to select and then grow the selection Smile
Posted: June 21, 2006
Reid6754
what if the element has thousands of polygons? I will have to grow the selection forever.
Posted: June 22, 2006
cord474
Did you try using the Polygon Island filter?
Posted: June 22, 2006
Ted Town
Oh, yeah
I forgot about it.. Smile
Posted: June 22, 2006
Reid6754
Yeah
Thanks