Part SelectFilter

Expressions

TreeSelectAllInstances

Std Base

Part SelectFilter
Menu location
None
Workbenches
All
Default shortcut
X S / E S / F S / C S
Introduced in version
1.0
See also
None

Description

The Part SelectFilter command can be used to restrict selection in the 3D view to vertices, edges or faces, or to remove that restriction.

Usage

Vertex selection

1. This option only allows the selection of vertices.
2. There are several ways to invoke this option:
   • Click on the black down arrow to the right of the button in the toolbar and select the Vertex selection option from the flyout. Note: the button image will change depending on the selected option.
   • Use the keyboard shortcut: X then S.

Edge selection

1. This option only allows the selection of edges.
2. There are several ways to invoke this option:
   • Select the Edge selection option from the toolbar. See above.
   • Use the keyboard shortcut: E then S.

Face selection

1. This option only allows the selection of faces.
2. There are several ways to invoke this option:
   • Select the Face selection option from the toolbar. See above.
   • Use the keyboard shortcut: F then S.

All selection filters cleared

1. This option allows the selection of all subelements and of whole objects.
2. There are several ways to invoke this option:
   • Select the All selection filters cleared option from the toolbar. See above.
   • Use the keyboard shortcut: C then S.

Notes

• Selecting from the Tree view is impossible with the vertex, edge and face selection options.
• The vertex, edge and face selection options do not work together with Std BoxSelection or Std BoxElementSelection.

Expressions

TreeSelectAllInstances

Std Base

Std Base

• File: New, Open, Open Recent, Close, Close All, Save, Save As, Save a Copy, Save All, Revert, Import, Export,Merge project, Document information, Print, Print preview, Export PDF, Exit

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• Edit: Undo, Redo, Cut, Copy, Paste, Duplicate selection, Refresh, Box selection, Box element selection, Select All, Delete, Send to Python Console, Placement, Transform, Alignment, Toggle Edit mode, Properties, Edit mode, Preferences

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• View:
  • Miscellaneous: Create new view, Orthographic view, Perspective view, Fullscreen, Bounding box, Toggle axis cross, Clipping plane, Persistent section cut, Texture mapping, Toggle navigation/Edit mode, Material, Appearance, Random color, Color per face, Toggle transparency, Workbench, Status bar
  • Standard views: Fit all, Fit selection, Align to selection, Isometric, Dimetric, Trimetric, Home, Front, Top, Right, Rear, Bottom, Left, Rotate Left, Rotate Right, Store working view, Recall working view
  • Freeze display: Save views, Load views, Freeze view, Clear views
  • Draw style: As is, Points, Wireframe, Hidden line, No shading, Shaded, Flat lines
  • Stereo: Stereo red/cyan, Stereo quad buffer, Stereo Interleaved Rows, Stereo Interleaved Columns, Stereo Off, Issue camera position
  • Zoom: Zoom In, Zoom Out, Box zoom
  • Document window: Docked, Undocked, Fullscreen
  • Visibility: Toggle visibility, Show selection, Hide selection, Select visible objects, Toggle all objects, Show all objects, Hide all objects, Toggle selectability
  • Toolbars: File, Edit, Clipboard, Workbench, Macro, View, Individual views, Structure, Help, Lock toolbars
  • Panels: Tree view, Property view, Model, Selection view, Python console, Report view, Tasks, DAG view
  • Dock window overlay: Toggle overlay for all, Toggle transparent for all, Toggle overlay, Toggle transparent, Bypass mouse events in docked overlay windows, Toggle left, Toggle right, Toggle top, Toggle bottom
  • Link navigation: Go to linked object, Go to the deepest linked object, Select all links
  • Tree view actions: Sync view, Sync selection, Sync placement, Pre-selection, Record selection, Single document, Multi document, Collapse/Expand, Initiate dragging, Go to selection, Selection back, Selection forward

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• Tools: Edit parameters, Save image, Load image, Scene inspector, Dependency graph, Export dependency graph, Document utility, Add text document, View turntable, Units converter, Customize, Addon manager, Measure

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• Macro: Macro recording, Macros, Recent macros, Execute macro, Attach to remote debugger, Debug macro, Stop debugging, Step over, Step into, Toggle breakpoint

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• Windows: Next, Previous, Tile, Cascade, Windows

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• Help: Help, FreeCAD Website, Donate, Users documentation, Python scripting documentation, Automatic Python modules documentation, FreeCAD Forum, FreeCAD FAQ, Report a bug, About FreeCAD, What's This, Start

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• Additional:
  • Miscellaneous: Create part, Create group, Create a variable set, Make link group, Select all instances, Toggle freeze
  • Create datums: Create coordinate system, Create datum plane, Create datum line, Create datum point
  • Link tools: Make link, Make sub-link, Replace with link, Unlink, Import links, Import all links
  • Expression actions: Copy selected, Copy active document, Copy all documents, Paste
  • Selection filter: Vertex selection, Edge selection, Face selection, All selection filters cleared

User documentation

• Getting started
• Installation: Download, Windows, Linux, Mac, Additional components, Docker, AppImage, Ubuntu Snap
• Basics: About FreeCAD, Interface, Mouse navigation, Selection methods, Object name, Preferences, Workbenches, Document structure, Properties, Help FreeCAD, Donate

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• Help: Tutorials, Video tutorials
• Workbenches: Std Base, Assembly, BIM, CAM, Draft, FEM, Inspection, Material, Mesh, OpenSCAD, Part, PartDesign, Points, Reverse Engineering, Robot, Sketcher, Spreadsheet, Surface, TechDraw, Test Framework

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• Addons: Addon Manager, External workbenches, Scripting and macros

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• Hubs: User hub, Power users hub, Developer hub