Understanding Selection Sets
If you need to select the same objects over and over, it can be frustrating to manually do it and it is easy to make mistakes. Instead, use the Selection Explorer to create, modify, and reuse selection sets. Using selection sets makes accessing and selecting groups of commonly-used objects faster and more consistent.
Selection sets can be created and modified in a variety of ways, including Boolean operations using two or more sets.
Notes:
- Selection sets are created automatically when you import data containing scan station labels. See Work with Scan Station Labels and Selection Sets for more information.
- The selection sets you create, and those created from some types of imported files, also appear in the View Filter Manager. They can be used as a starting point in creating view filters. See View Filter Manager Options.
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Selection Explorer Command |
Resulting Sets |
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Project with data |
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Group project data into selection sets. |
Save as...
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Add currently selected objects to a selection set.
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Add Current Selection current selection(2) + Red(3) --> Red (5) Note: Do not forget to Save as.
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Subtract currently selected objects from a selection set. |
Subtract Current Selection Blue(5) – current selection (1) --> Blue (4) Note: Do not forget to Save as.
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Add objects to a more than one selection set.
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Pick current selection(1) Add To Red(4), Yellow(5) --> Red(5), Yellow(6)
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Subtract a selection set from another selection set. |
Select Blue(5) Subtract From Yellow(6) --> Yellow(4) Note: Only the two objects that Blue and Yellow have in common are subtracted from Yellow.
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Create a new set from two or more selection sets. |
Select Yellow(6), Blue(5) Save as Green(8)
Note: Use [Ctrl] or [Shift] to multi-select selection sets from the Selection Explorer list.
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Create a selection set of only the common objects from two or more sets. |
Select Yellow(6), Blue(5) Save Common Items as Green(8) |
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