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Pick Front AND Box/Circle Select

Thread starter RealSaladsamurai
Start date Dec 10, 2015

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Dec 10, 2015

RealSaladsamurai

Mechanical

I notice that when "pick front" nodes is enabled, it does not work when we box or circle select. I know from my reading, that this is the intended behavior of Femap. Is there any plan to offer more advance section techniques such as front picking circle? Using layers/groups "around plane" is a workaround, but requires many mouse clicks that seem unnecessary. It seems like Femap has all of the algorithms necessary to front-circle select, it just needs implementation.

Any tips or tricks are appreciated.

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FEMAP v11.1.0
MSC Nastran v2013