Unselecting solid face

[tooling]

 

How do you unselect a solid face once it has been selected? I had 150 surfaces selected. After the tool path I decided that some needed to be check surfaces instead. All I can find is unselect all. I used to be able to just click on the face again and it would unselect it. Or if I clicked on it as a check surface it would change it from a drive to a check surface.

 

do I have to unselect all?

[beej]

You still can do that way. I do this pretty often myself. But I think you can only unselect the faces if they were picked by the face selection method (not the body selection method). You can also pick them as check faces and it will automatically remove them from the drive faces.

[Guest]

I have found that if you click on an already picked face, it unselects it.

[tooling]

Thanks. I picked the solid body then could not unselect some of the faces. check surfaces still wouldn't work if I picked the solid body. it showed that some were picked but ignored them and kept the same number of drive surfaces.

 

do we have to pick each face by its self now?

[Guest]

You can select already selected faces as check surfaces. Not having a lot of experience yet with machining from a solid I am not sure what impact this will have on your toolpath.

[Storkman]

That is a pain. I agree with John, select them as check surfaces, then go back and unselect all the check surfaces. Only workaround I can see.