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3.7 Selection Groups
Selection groups are used to combine various objects into a
group, so that selecting any one object in the group has the
same effect as selecting all of the objects in the group. Grouping
related objects in selection groups makes it easier in
GENER and CERUN to select and hide (or unhide) a component
of the machine.
For example, in the sample machine created to this point, the
Shroud and Base objects could be grouped together into a
single selection group, so that at run-time the entire base of the
machine could easily be hidden by a single click followed by a
Simulation»Hide Selection (Ctrl B shortcut) menu selection.
Creating Virtual Machine Models with Quest
Selection Groups
Selection groups can be found in the navigator window under the Groups»Selection header. You
create a new group by dragging an object to the Groups»Selection header. You add objects to an
existing group by dragging them to the group header. You can also drag an entire collision or
exclusion group to the selection group header to
create a new selection group. You can create as
many selection groups as are necessary to best
represent the grouping of objects of your model.
Note though that the same object cannot appear in
multiple selection groups. Objects and entire
groups can be deleted to remove the selection relationships. Finally, you can open the Properties
of a selection group and disable the visibility property of the group, so that the group starts off
hidden in GENER and CERUN.
The grouping of objects can make it impossible to select and edit the properties of a particular
object in the simulation window if it is grouped with other objects. For that reason, in QUEST
only, selection grouping can be toggled on and off using the Simulation»Group Selection menu
bar function (and also using the Group button shown circled above on the VM Construct
toolbar).
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