Action Mode Tools

The series of icons found on the right side of the Results browser control both entity selection and the display of the model:

The first icon determines the type of entity that you wish to manipulate, while the rest perform specific actions. The specific buttons available are Entity Type, Selector, Add to Panel Collector, Show/Hide, and Isolate.

Entity Type

The first button in the action modes tool set functions as a "mode" selector for the rest of the tools, by determining what type of entity the remaining tools will act on. For example, when set to "components", the Results browser tool (described below) will only select or deselect components.

Left-click the button to drop down a menu of available entity types--Components, Systems, Section Cuts, Assemblies, Elements, Nodes, Materials, and Properties --then click the desired type to select it. The list of available options will depend on the current browser view mode:

Browser View Mode	Drop-down Menu	Available Entity Types
Files View	----	----
Model View		Components Systems Section Cuts Assemblies* Materials* (see note below) Properties* (see note below) *Available in the Model View only. Note: For Materials and Properties the Advanced Result Math template must be used when importing a model and result file.
Component View		Components Systems
Load Case View	----	----
Result View		Components Systems Section Cuts Elements* Nodes* *Available in the Result View only.

Once an entity type is selected, all entities of that same type will be highlighted in the browser tree and in the graphics area.

Note: Assemblies collect and organize sub-assemblies and components into hierarchical data structures which are intended to reflect the data structure of the product being modeled. The Assembly Hierarchy folder shows a list of assemblies which can be expanded to show the components organized within those assemblies. The Assembly Hierarchy folder also displays a list of components which are currently not organized into any assembly at the bottom of the folder. By selecting Assemblies for the Entity Type, all the components in the assemblies are selected and highlighted in the graphics area and the browser tree. The middle scroll wheel on the mouse allows depth selection on the assemblies in the graphics area similar to the components selection.

Selector

The Selector is a tool to interactively select Components, Systems, Section Cuts, Assemblies, Elements, or Nodes via the browser or by selecting within the graphics area.

The type of entity selection is made via the entity selection pull-down menu. The Selector can be used to find entities from the graphics area which will then be highlighted in the list, and is also an efficient way of selecting multiple entities at once--such as when changing color.

In general, the left mouse button selects entities while the right mouse button clears them.

Note: You can setup the right mouse click deselect and the quick window deselect (on Shift + right mouse button) in the Preferences > Options dialog.

Picking in the Graphics Area

Single Selection

Left-click to select entities.
Left-click and hold to pre-highlight entities; the entity under the selector at any given moment highlights, but it is not selected until you release the mouse button.
Left-click and hold + rotate the middle mouse wheel to scroll through the depth of the model. Entities are pre-highlighted as you scroll the mouse wheel, however they will not be selected until you release the mouse button. Using this method allows you to select entities hidden from view without rotating the model.
Right-click an entity to deselect it.

Quick Window Selection

Shift + left-click-and-drag to use the quick window selection method to highlight or select multiple entities.
Shift + right-click-and-drag to use the quick window selection method to deselect multiple entities.

Note: Selected entities' line items highlight within the browser.

Picking in the Browser Tree List

Left-click to select and highlight an entity in the browser. The entity is also highlighted in graphics area.
Ctrl + left-click to select multiple entities in both the browser and graphics area. Multiple entities of the same type can be appended to the selection. Left-click can be used to add/remove components from an active collector on a panel.
Shift + left-click highlights multiple entities in the browser and the graphics area. You can append and remove entities from a panel's active collector list depending on which entity entry is selected.
Right-clicking highlights components in the list and invokes the Context Sensitive Menu. No highlighting of the entity in graphics area will occur with this operation.

Add to Panel Collector

Add to Panel Collector is a function whereby the browser can be used to select and add entities to the panel collectors within HyperView. This is an alternative method to using the advanced selection capabilities already available in each collector's extended entity selection menu. This button only becomes available when you have a HyperView panel open that includes at least one entity collector.

Note: Only the selected entities are added to the panel's active collector. A binding change to the active panel collector’s type will be performed. For instance if you pick components, and the panel collector is set to elements, all referring elements to the selected component will be added to the panel collector.

There are two ways of using this tool:

You can use the Selector to choose a set of entities beforehand, and then click Add to Panel Collector to add them to the panel's collector. In this method, the Selector effectively gives a preview of the selection, because the selected entities are highlighted but only added to the active panel collector when you click the Add to Panel Collector button.
Alternatively, you can click Add to Panel Collector first to activate it, then pick the entities you wish to add to the collector. Each selection is added to the collector immediately upon each release of the mouse button.

Either method can be used in the graphics area or the browser tree list. Ctrl-clicks and Shift-clicks are supported in the browser list.

You can remove entities from a panel collector, by clicking its reset button .

Show/Hide

The Show/Hide mode enables the control of the model display via interactively selecting entities within the graphics area. This mode is only intended for graphics selection and is not designed for operation within the browser (use the local entity controls found inside the browser's tree structure for browser display control).

Note: Deselect with right mouse button and Shift+right mouse-and-drag is automatically activated (even though it was not chosen in the Preferences > Options dialog - key settings).

When using the quick window selection (Shift+click-and-drag) an entity is considered selected if any portion of it falls within the window; you do not need to encompass the entire entity with the window, only a small portion of it. Also remember that only entities of the types determined by the Entity Types button will be hidden or revealed.

Picking in Graphics

Single Selection

Left-click turns on entities to the display that are currently turned off.
Left-click-and-drag pre-highlights only the entities that are currently turned off in the display (entities already turned on do not highlight.)
Left-click and hold + rotate the middle mouse wheel to scroll through the depth of the model. Entities are pre-highlighted as you scroll the mouse wheel, however they will not be selected until you release the mouse button. Using this method allows you to select entities hidden from view without rotating the model.
Right-click turns off entities in the display.
Right-click-and-drag pre-highlights only the entities that are currently turned on in the display (entities already turned off do not highlight.)

Quick Window Selection

Shift + left-click-and-drag uses the quick window selection method to turn on multiple entities in the display.
Shift + right-click-and-drag uses the quick window selection method to turn off multiple entities in the display.

Picking in Browser

This tool does not function on line items within the browser's tree list. To control the display of the listed entities use All/None/Reverse, the individual local display control inside the tree structure, or the Show/Hide/Isolate functions from the context sensitive menu.

Isolate

Isolate is a mechanism whereby only the selected entity will be displayed.

The Isolate tool isolates within the entity type; for example, if there are Components and Systems displayed, and you use Isolate while the Entity Type button is set to Component, then only that Component will become isolated--the Systems will remain untouched in the display. In other words, all of the other components will be turned off, but the isolated component and the systems will still display.

Picking in Graphics

In general, the left mouse button is used to isolate visible entities, while the right button is used to isolate entities that can be visible or already hidden (thus turning the hidden ones back on):

Single Selection

Left-click will isolate the clicked entity from those on display (single-click selection).
Left-click-and-drag will pre-highlight entities that are currently displayed. It will not highlight entities that are currently turned off in the display. Upon release, the pre-highlighted entity will be isolated.
Left-click and hold + rotate the middle mouse wheel to scroll through the depth of the model. Entities are pre-highlighted as you scroll the mouse wheel, however they will not be selected until you release the mouse button. Using this method allows you to select entities hidden from view without rotating the model.
Right-click will isolate entities from all available entities (whether currently on or off in display).
Right-click-and-drag will pre-highlight an entity that is displayed or turned off from the display in the graphics area. Upon release, the pre-highlighted entity will be turned on and isolated.

Quick Window Selection

Shift + left-click-and-drag uses the quick window selection method to isolate multiple entities (but only entities currently visible).
Shift + right-click-and-drag uses window selection to isolate entities from all available entities (whether displayed or turned off from the display).
Note: When using the quick window selection method (Shift + click-and-drag) an entity is considered selected if any portion of it falls within the window; you do not need to encompass the entire entity with the window, only a small portion of it. Also remember that only entities of the types determined by the Entity Types button will be hidden or revealed.

Picking in Browser

In Isolate mode, clicking on an entity folder such as the Components folder will isolate all components, therefore turning every component on.
Left-click will select/highlight an entity in the list – the entity is isolated and displayed in graphics area.
Ctrl + left-click highlights an entity name in the browser and isolates it in the graphics area. Multiple entities of the same type--e.g. components--can be appended to the selection, thus displaying more than one entity but still hiding all non-selected ones. Selected/isolated entities can be de-selected by Ctrl + left-clicking on them a second time.
Shift + left-click highlights all entities of the same type--e.g. components--in the browser between the first click and the most recent click, and displays the selected entities isolated from the non-selected ones in the graphics area. You can use additional Shift-clicks or Ctrl-clicks modify the selection of displayed entities.