How to I deselect individual parts in an Assembly?

Richard_Inv

Say I box-select a bunch of stuff to delete, but want to keep a couple of parts. My natural inclination is just to ctrl+click on them to remove them from the selection, as this is how it works in everything from other CAD and 3D software, to RTS games, to Windows itself. 

Is there a shortcut to do this or do I just have to select them in the lister on the left rather than in the graphics viewport?

james_aguilar160

In this program, clicking on a part with no modifiers held has the same effect as Ctrl-Click normally does. You get used to it pretty fast.

nick_papageorge073

Left click on the individual parts, either in the graphics or in the part tree, and it will remove them from the selection.

Richard_Inv

Thanks but this doesn't seem to work when I've box-selected stuff? It only deselects if the items were individually clicked in the first place.

james_aguilar160

It works for me, clicking on the parts list. (It didn't work clicking on the graphical view, where each click selected or deselected entities within parts e.g. faces and vertices.)

Richard_Inv

https://forum.onshape.com/discussion/comment/104811#Comment_104811

That works okay if there are only a few parts in an Assembly, but once you get to a few dozen it's tedious, especially if not all the parts are named well. It'd be much easier to just be able to ctrl+click to deselect them in the graphics area in that case.

arttu_papinkivi629

I thought it was Shift+left click. It doesnt work now though! Dont know why. This is a must have feature.

MDesign

just click the part and it will deselect. just like it selected it. doesn't seem to work with select other. only in part tree

MDesign

does seem like an improvement could be had there. to be more intuitive by allowing part vs geometry selections in graphical space. maybe even a filter selection function as well.

joshtargo

I generally hide what I want to keep (with the Y key) them select the rest and delete. Or drag the keepers into a folder in the assembly tree, the. Select the rest in the tree and delete.