{"id":406,"date":"2014-08-19T16:16:18","date_gmt":"2014-08-19T16:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fusion360.wpengine.com\/selection-insights-for-form-modeling\/"},"modified":"2016-03-17T18:28:16","modified_gmt":"2016-03-17T18:28:16","slug":"selection-insights-for-form-modeling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/selection-insights-for-form-modeling\/","title":{"rendered":"Selection insights for Form modeling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I concentrated on some basic selection capabilities in this Screencast which can help speed up your T-Spline modeling. \u00a0You will see how objects can be made visible but not selectable with the toggle available in the browser context menu. \u00a0How can selection double click be applied. \u00a0By two rapid mouse clicks\u00a0you can pick loops of edges, loops of faces or even select the entire\u00a0T-Spline body. \u00a0You can save views when you expect to be working on a detail area with the Save View option at the top of your browser. \u00a0If you need to reselect the same set of anything create a Selection Set. \u00a0Then when you need to select it again. \u00a0No problem. \u00a0Did you know the window or box selection behaves differently when you select from lower right to upper left or from upper left to lower right? \u00a0When you have a complex model you can switch to performance mode and get much faster responsiveness. \u00a0There are also three different display modes which can improve performance and give you insight into the structure of the model. \u00a0This is basic selection and modeling capabilities but I hope anyone will pick up something useful.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Thanks<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Paul Deyo<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/screencast.autodesk.com\/Embed\/576addcd-a30f-4155-b5de-e7db568425dd\" width=\"640\" height=\"400\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><P><IMG border=\"0\" alt=\"FormModeling.png\" align=\"center\" src=\"http:\/\/autodesk.i.lithium.com\/t5\/image\/serverpage\/image-id\/127105iE389CCC4BE085EF2\/image-size\/original?v=mpbl-1&amp;px=-1\" title=\"FormModeling.png\" \/><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":160,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fusion","dhig-theme--light"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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