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Patchwork 3D 2024 X7

Selections (Editor)

Available in: Shaper: Editors > Selections

Selections is an editor used to save sets of selected Shaper objects.

This editor's interface consists of three tabs.

Saved Selections

The Saved Selections tab provides access to the operations on simple selections.

Operation element

Description

This zone provides a list of the saved selections.

This zone provides a list of the saved selections.

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The Create a saved selection button is for saving the currently-selected surfaces as a new selection set.

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This button allows you to update the active selection based on additions or deletions of surfaces you want to make.

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This button allows you to rename the active selection.

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The Delete a saved selection button is for deleting the active saved selection.

Tip

To activate one of these saved selections, double-click on its name in the list.

Selection by type

You can make a selection by:

  • type of geometries (meshes or nurbs), objects (cameras, vectors, Bézier paths, etc...) and primitives (spheres, cubes, planes, etc...).

  • group of geometries (meshes or nurbs) and primitives (spheres, cubes, planes, etc...).

Selection by lighting

Select here the surfaces that have lightmaps (Select Surfaces with Lightmaps) and the surfaces that do not have lightmaps (Select Surfaces without Lightmaps).

Regular Expression Selections

The Regular Expression Selections tab provides access to the operations on advanced selections by regular expressions.

Icon

Function

Description

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Save all the regular expressions

Saves all expressions of complex selections in a file. This allows the same expressions to be used in several databases.

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Open regular expressions file

Import and recall a saved file of complex selections.

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Create regular expressions group

Creates a new group of regular expressions.

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Delete regular expressions group

Deletes the selected group of regular expressions.

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Create regular expressions based selection

Creates a new regular expression to use as a selection criterion.

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Delete regular expressions

Deletes the selected regular selection expression.

Example

A selection of all the objects named box will have the following regular expression: box*.

A group of regular expressions containing the following regular expressions: box* and cyl* will select in one go all the objects named box and all the objects named cylinder.

Tip

To activate a selection group by regular expression, double-click on its name in the list of regular expression groups.