{"id":218,"date":"2014-04-01T19:01:52","date_gmt":"2014-04-01T19:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fusion360.wpengine.com\/tip-tuesday-3-ways-to-select-an-area-in-fusion-360\/"},"modified":"2016-03-15T10:16:07","modified_gmt":"2016-03-15T10:16:07","slug":"tip-tuesday-3-ways-to-select-an-area-in-fusion-360","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/tip-tuesday-3-ways-to-select-an-area-in-fusion-360\/","title":{"rendered":"Tip Tuesday: 3 ways to select an area in Fusion 360"},"content":{"rendered":"

Area selection is the method by which you can select more than one thing at the same time.  Area selection happens when you do a \u201cdrag\u201d (LMB down, move the mouse, LMB up).  It comes in 3 flavors: Window Selection, Freeform Selection, and Paint Selection<\/STRONG><\/FONT><\/P>

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Window Selection<\/FONT><\/STRONG><\/P>

The default is \u201cWindow Selection\u201d.  You simply draw a rectangle by two points around things in your model to determine what is selected.<\/FONT><\/P>

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Window Select offers two different interactions:<\/FONT><\/P>

Upper-left to lower-right.  In this usage, only things that are completely inside the rectangle will be selected:<\/FONT><\/P>

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Upper-right to lower-left.  In this usage, everything which crosses the rectangle gets selected:<\/FONT><\/P>

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Notice how much more was selected this way.  The yellow rectangle is a visual clue that you are doing a \u201ccrossing\u201d selection, instead of the orange \u201cinclusion\u201d selection preview.<\/FONT><\/P>

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Freeform Selection<\/FONT><\/STRONG><\/P>

If you have your area select set to \u201cFreeform Selection\u201d, you can draw a less constrained shape to determine what is selected, instead of a rectangle.<\/FONT><\/P>

Freeform Selection also has crossing and inclusion selection options.  Drawing your shape clockwise is an inclusion selection:<\/FONT><\/P>

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While counter-clockwise is a crossing selection:<\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/P>

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Paint Selection<\/STRONG><\/FONT><\/P>

This kind of area selection allows you to select just by dragging the cursor over things you want to select. Paint Selection, by its nature, is always a \u201ccrossing\u201d selection \u2013 anything the path of the cursor selects will be selected.  There is no \u201cinclusion\u201d selection with Paint Selection.<\/FONT><\/P>

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You may have noticed that area selecting a model from top left to bottom right may behave differently than area selecting a model from bottom right to top left; that’s because it IS different. 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