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Data selection

Data selection - CATIA Tutorial

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Data selection

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- [Instructor] Here I'm going to talk about how to select elements and interfacing with the tree and elements within the graphics window. So the first thing I want to do is I want to turn on several elements to help demonstrate this. I'm going to go into Tools, Show, All Sketches. Now, we see all of our sketches in the graphics window. If I select a sketch, you'll notice that it highlights the sketch here. It also wants to highlight it in the tree. The problem is is we don't see where it's highlighting it in the tree exactly and the reason behind that is is because it's not expanded out to the sketch. If I right mouse click on top of that sketch, I can say center graph and it'll take me to that sketch. You can see now where it's located at. If I go up into View and under Tree Expansion, I can say Expand Second Level. Here we can see our expanded tree out to now all of the second level elements. So, here, if I highlight over a sketch, you can see now where that sketch is in the tree…

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