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How to I deselect individual parts in an Assembly?

Richard_Inv
Richard_Inv Member Posts: 45 PRO
in Community Support
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?

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  • james_aguilar160
    james_aguilar160 Member Posts: 59 ✭✭
    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_papageorge_dayjob
    nick_papageorge_dayjob Member, csevp Posts: 1,251 PRO
    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
    Richard_Inv Member Posts: 45 PRO
    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
    james_aguilar160 Member Posts: 59 ✭✭
    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
    Richard_Inv Member Posts: 45 PRO
    edited September 2024
    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.

  • arttuapinkivi
    arttuapinkivi Member Posts: 3 PRO

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

  • MDesign
    MDesign Member Posts: 1,461 PRO
    edited November 2024

    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
    MDesign Member Posts: 1,461 PRO

    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
    joshtargo Member Posts: 640 EDU

    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.

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