×
INTELLIGENT WORK FORUMS
FOR ENGINEERING PROFESSIONALS

Log In

Come Join Us!

Are you an
Engineering professional?
Join Eng-Tips Forums!
  • Talk With Other Members
  • Be Notified Of Responses
    To Your Posts
  • Keyword Search
  • One-Click Access To Your
    Favorite Forums
  • Automated Signatures
    On Your Posts
  • Best Of All, It's Free!
  • Students Click Here

*Eng-Tips's functionality depends on members receiving e-mail. By joining you are opting in to receive e-mail.

Posting Guidelines

Promoting, selling, recruiting, coursework and thesis posting is forbidden.

Students Click Here

Jobs

how can I select a part in assy when axis' are on?

how can I select a part in assy when axis' are on?

how can I select a part in assy when axis' are on?

(OP)
In an assembly I am trying to select a part, to move it, and the axis' are turned on.  When I try to select a surface, or face of the part, the axis' keeps getting selected.  I turned the axis' off and this condition goes away, I could then select edges, surfaces, and faces.  By the way the filters are not active when I'm having this problem.

RE: how can I select a part in assy when axis' are on?

What happens when you activate filters for faces or surfaces?

RE: how can I select a part in assy when axis' are on?

(OP)
It works then, but it does it make sense that axis' ends up as the default with no filters on?

RE: how can I select a part in assy when axis' are on?

(OP)
whoops, I replied to soon.  It doesnt work when I put on the surface filter.

RE: how can I select a part in assy when axis' are on?

TheTick's got nothin'

RE: how can I select a part in assy when axis' are on?

Are you looking at the part in wireframe?

Just curiuos because I have had trouble selecting/moving parts sometimes when they are in wireframe.

DG

RE: how can I select a part in assy when axis' are on?

(OP)
Nope, I'm just gonna chaulk it up to a video card anomolie.

RE: how can I select a part in assy when axis' are on?

Shot in the dark here.

Do you have "Allow selection in wireframe and HLV modes" and "Allow selection in HLR and shaded modes" checked on?Under Tools\Options\System Options\Display/Selection

Try unchecking and see if you still pick the axis.

Also make usre under View that "Temp axis" and "Axis" is unchecked.

Regards,

Scott Baugh, CSWP
3DVision Technologies
http://www.3dvisiontech.com
http://www.scottjbaugh.com
FAQ731-376
When in doubt, always check the help

RE: how can I select a part in assy when axis' are on?

I agree, I have no idea where SW comes up with it's Selection order...and it's often not the one you want.  Have you tried RMB, "Select Other"?  It's a pretty handy tool.

Ken

Red Flag This Post

Please let us know here why this post is inappropriate. Reasons such as off-topic, duplicates, flames, illegal, vulgar, or students posting their homework.

Red Flag Submitted

Thank you for helping keep Eng-Tips Forums free from inappropriate posts.
The Eng-Tips staff will check this out and take appropriate action.

Reply To This Thread

Posting in the Eng-Tips forums is a member-only feature.

Click Here to join Eng-Tips and talk with other members!


Resources