Selection Resolution

Selection resolution affects what geometry you select when selecting items in the main navigation window using Select mode

When you click on an item in Select mode, JetStream doesn't know what level of item to start selecting at - do you mean the whole model, or the layer, or the instance, or group, or just the geometry? The selection resolution tells JetStream what level in the selection tree to start selecting items at by default.

The options are:

• Model

  Selects the whole model.

• Layer

  Selects all items on a layer.

• First Object

  Selects the first item in the selection tree path that isn't a layer.

• Last Unique

  Selects the most specific item (furthest along the selection tree path) that is unique (not multiply instanced).

• Last Object

  Selects the most specific item (furthest along the selection tree path) that is marked as a >composite object. If no composite object is found, the geometry is selected. This is the Default selection resolution setting.

• Geometry

  Selects the last item in the selection tree path (most specific, but may be multiply instanced).

If you find you have selected the wrong level of item, you can interactively "cycle" through the selection resolution, without having to go to the options dialog or the selection tree. You do this by holding down the Shift key when selecting an item. This selects an item one level more specific each time you select the item until the resolution gets to "geometry", at which point it will revert back to "model". The selection resolution remains as set in options for the next selection.

As well as being able to set the default selection resolution in the Selection options tab in Global Options , a quicker way is to right click on any item in the selection tree and choose the menu item Set Selection Resolution to X , where X is one of the above selection resolutions.