KOMPAS-3D v24

When forming an arbitrary set of objects for copying, pay attention to the following features.

•To select an object (e.g., a sketch or a body) as a whole, specify it in the Drawing tree. If you want to select not the whole object, but some of its elements (for example, a curve in a sketch, a face of a body), specify this element in the graphic area.

•The objects of the current model can be selected both before and after the copy process is started. If you want to create a copy from the objects of another model, the objects are only specified when the process is started.

•It is convenient to use filters to select objects of certain types in the graphics area and in the Model-Source window. Besides, you can select objects with a frame and special frame selection commands.

•You can simultaneously select all model/component objects of certain types (except primitives). To do this, enable filters for the desired object types (e.g. Bodies, Surfaces, Sketches, etc.) and specify them in the Design Tree:

•root element — to select all objects of the data model of types,

•component — to select all component objects of these types.The

selection is available both in the current document and in the Model-Source window.

If an assembly model is specified in the Design tree, then objects of all nesting levels are selected, i.e. objects built in the assembly itself, in components inserted directly into the assembly, components of subassemblies and further to the full depth.

If some objects of the specified types have been selected earlier (their names are contained in the Objects field), then when specifying the same model/component, all other objects of these types will be selected, and the previously selected objects will be excluded from the number of selected objects.

When copying bodies and surfaces, also keep the following in mind.

•When specifying an operation in the Design tree, not the element created by this operation is selected, but the body or surface to which it belongs. For example, if a rounding operation is specified, the whole body/surface is added to the list of copied objects, not the rounding operation itself and not the edge of the body/surface obtained by rounding, but the whole body/surface itself.

 Thus, to select a body/surface, it is enough to specify in the Design tree the operation by which any of the elements of this body/surface is created.

•To select all bodies and surfaces in the model simultaneously, use the commands:

•Bodies visible in projections on the principal planes — highlights bodies and surfaces that are not occluded by other objects in all standard orientations.

•Bodies invisible in projections on the principal planes — highlights bodies and surfaces that are completely occluded by other objects in all standard orientations.

In the current document, the commands are called from the  menu Select — By visibillity; in the window Model-source — from the button menu Select... on the toolbar.

Bodies/surfaces of all nesting levels are selected in assembly models.