Switching Selection Modes

When you switch to different modes and select, the selected result will be totally different.

• Vertex Mode: In this mode, you can select the vertex (the red dots in the illustration below) on object's surface for editing.
  
• Element Mode: In this mode, you can select the entire sub-meshes of the object (the belt in this example).
  

• Left Mouse Clicking
  • Regular Click: Click to select one vertex.
  • Ctrl + Click: Hold the Ctrl key and click to multi-select or multi-deselect vertices once at a time.
  • Shift + Click: Hold the Shift key and click to Add one vertex into selection.
  • Ctrl + Shift + Click: Hold the Ctrl and Shift keys, and click to Subtract vertices from selection.
• Dragging Selection Box
  • Regular Dragging Selection Box: Select vertices framed up by the box.
    
  • Ctrl + Dragging Selection Box: Hold the Ctrl key and drag a selection box over selected vertices to invert the selection.
  • Shift + Dragging Selection Box: Hold the Shift key and click or drag a selection box to add more vertices into a selection.
  • Ctrl + Shift + Dragging Selection Box: Hold the Ctrl and Shift keys, and click or drag a selection box to subtract vertices from selection.

• Ignore Backfaces: Activate this box in order to avoid from accidentally selecting the back vertices.

  Drag a box to select vertices.	Ignore Backfaces: ON Only the front vertices are selected.	Ignore Backfaces: OFF The front and back vertices are selected together.

• Grow Selection: Click this button to increase the size of the current selection in order to select more adjacent vertices.

  The original selection.	The more vertices are selected as the Grow button is clicked twice.

• Shrink Selection: Click this button to decrease the size of the current selection in order to select fewer adjacent vertices.

  The original selection.	The more vertices are selected as the Shrink button is clicked five times.

• Mirror Tolerance: This is a threshold value for the Mirror Selection feature. The higher the value is, the more symmetrical vertices will be selected when the Mirror Selected button is clicked. Increase this value for the meshes that are not completely symmetrical in order to mirror-select vertices as possible.

  Tolerance: 0 Fewer vertices at the symmetrical side are selected when you click the Mirror Selected button.	Tolerance: 100.00 More vertices at the symmetrical side are selected when you click the Mirror Selected button.

• Mirror Selected: If you want to select the symmetric vertices, then click the Mirror Selected

  The original selection.	More vertices are selected as the Mirror Selected button is clicked (5x).