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Once you have defined a selection, you can use Freeze Selection, available from the context menu that appears when you right-click in the viewport. The current selection will be locked. To keep you from modifying it and to make it easier to manipulate this selection, the tools for selecting and deselecting objects are deactivated until you unfreeze the current selection by selecting Freeze Selection again.

Still by right-clicking, the Select a surface under cursor lists the different types of selection:

The context menu also allows you to resize the selected surface(s) with Scale Gizmo . Please refer to how the scaling gizmo works to apply the transformation.

Operations for modifying the selection are available in the Selection menu:

Icon	Function	Description
	Select All	Select all the surfaces of the model.
	Invert Selection	Invert the selection: select all unselected surfaces and deselect the surfaces that were previously selected.
	Select None	Deselect all surfaces.
	Selection by type	Select surfaces by type.
	Selection by lighting	Select surfaces with or without lightmaps.

The surface selector is placed under the layer selector in the Surfaces panel of the Shaper sidebar. It shows the list of surfaces associated with the current active layer. Each surface is represented by its name and three boxes characterizing its state: visible, frozen, or selected.

The color of the first box corresponds to the color of a surface in the 3D viewport.

The second box corresponds to the visibility of the surface. An eye represents the visibility of the surface. When the eye is barred and grayed out , the surface is not visible.

The third box indicates whether the surface is frozen or not. This condition is represented by a lock . When the lock is closed and red , the surface's selection state is locked. It cannot be selected or deselected.

The fourth box corresponds to the surface selection. When the checkmark is highlighted in white, the surface is selected. A green checkmark indicates that the tessellation for the selected NURBS surface can be modified.

At any moment, you can modify the state of a surface by clicking on the boxes.

A few operations are directly accessible from the surface selector via the icons and the options menu. To open the options menu, place the mouse pointer on the designated surface and right-click on it.

When an operation is called up directly from the surface selector, it applies to all the surfaces that are highlighted in the surface selector.

You can mark or unmark a surface with a Ctrl-click on its name in the surface selector. You can extend the marking to other surfaces by Shift-click on their names. You can cancel the marking by clicking in the selector outside the surfaces.

Certain operations are available from the selector's context menu.

At the bottom of the surfaces selector, tools allows you to duplicate the marked surfaces, to send the marked surfaces to the active layer, to call up the properties box for the marked surfaces, or delete the marked surfaces.

You can move the marked surfaces to another layer with a drag and drop of the marked surfaces to the destination layer.

By clicking on one of the column headers of the surface selector, you can modify the sorting used for displaying the surfaces: sorting by name or sorting by box.

Operation mode Select (F2) allows you to interact directly on 3D surfaces to modify the selection. However, other ways of influencing selection exist. Please refer to the section on the selection for more information.

By holding the mouse button down and moving the mouse cursor, you plot a rectangular region. When you release the mouse button, all the surfaces that are visible in this region are included in the selection operation.

The different selection methods are as follows:

Icon	Function	Description
	menu Selection > Touched by Region (F3)	By default, the selection system is configured to designate all the surfaces contained or partially contained in the designated region during the click and drag.
	Selection menu > Enclosed by Region (F4)	Only the surfaces that are fully contained in the region are designated during the click and drag. This operating mode is particularly advantageous when you wish to designate the surfaces of a more complex assembly.
	Selection menu > Restrict Region To Visible	Only visible surfaces contained in the region are selected when clicking and dragging. This procedure is particularly useful to avoid accidentally selecting surfaces hidden by other surfaces. Notice This selection mode works in conjunction with the other two selection modes Touched by Region and Enclosed by Region. Restrict Region to Visible enabled Restrict Region to Visible disabled