The Selection Tool has different modes that allow you to make complex selections. Selected parts and submodels are outlined by a light blue bounding box.
How the Selection tool works
Click on the Select icon or hit V on the keyboard for simple selection.
Advanced selection
Shift + V will cycle through the different selection modes or click on the small arrow to the right of the Select icon to see the different selection modes in a dropdown menu.
Selection modes
- Default Select: Select a part you click on.
- By Color: Select all parts in the same color as the one you click on.
- By Type: Select all parts of the same type as the one you click on (same BrickLink ID; parts with the same mold but with different decorations are different).
- By Type and Color: Select all parts of the same type and in the same color as the part you click on.
- By Connected: Select all parts that are connected to the one you click on.
- Window Selection: using your cursor, draw a rectangle around the parts you want to select.
- The Invert Selection feature is at the bottom of the Selection menu. Its default shortcut is Ctrl + Shift + V.
- Holding Ctrl while selecting adds to the current selection instead of replacing it.
- Holding Ctrl and clicking on a part already selected will remove that part from the selection. The mode is irrelevant, only one part is removed.
- You can combine advanced selections with Ctrl.
- First select with one mode, then change the mode and hold Ctrl to add other parts to the selection.
- You can only add selections this way. You won’t be able to remove anything that’s already been selected.
- Selecting parts in the Step list also selects them in the build.