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In this episode, we will talk about the selection tools.

Well, first of all,

I'm going to draw one rectangle and one Q.

So I'm gonna go here to this drawing tools rectangle.

I click on the origin,

one-click and second click, e.g.

here, I will do exactly the same now with the first click

on the red axis and the

second click more or less around here.

We don't have to be accurate right now.

So next step is going to the transformation panel.

Click, pull some pool,

then go to this surface, one-click unreleased.

Move your mouse up and just click again when you're high,

when the high of your cube is okay for you.

Here we are. So we have here now these two guys,

the first one is in 2D and the second one is in 3D.

They will allow us to check how we are going to

select things in SketchUp depending on if we,

our entity is 2D entity or 3D entity.

So first thing that we have to do is going to

this first button called Select and click on here.

Then you will see this black arrow on the mouse,

which is going to be our minds selection tool.

Taking mind that the shortcut for

this important selection tool is the Space bar.

If I go again, e.g.

to post poll and I want to go to

the selection tool using the shortcut, then Spacebar.

And here we are.

So let's start with this rectangle in two d dimensions.

First thing that we can see is that this surface,

this gray surface, is made in dots.

This is because it is already selected.

If I want to unselect this surface,

I have to click outside.

Then we have now these clean surface,

which actually is in this grey blue color.

Maybe we want this surface in a white color.

Then I just click on it.

It is already selected right button.

Here we can find this option Reverse Faces,

one-click, and here we are.

We'll talk about why we have

these two colors in all the different phases.

It is not the correct moment right now.

So let's focus on the selection tool.

First thing that we have to have in mind is that

SketchUp is all about surfaces and edges.

We have here a surface and we have edges.

I want to select any of them.

Yes, one-click on the correct spot

and that entity will be selected.

If I want to add more entities to my selection,

then I have to click and hold Shift.

And again, click, I can release, scroll out, scrolling,

click and hold Shift again and

add more entities to my selection, e.g.

these four edges around this survey,

I can select as well the surface.

And once it is already selected,

if I click and hold Shift

and I click again on the surface,

it will be unselected.

So this is one way for selecting different entities.

Furthermore, we can use the box selection.

This book selection works like that.

If I start the box from the left to the right,

one click and then I haul,

I move my mouse, e.g.

till here, what is going to happen?

As you can see, just this EDS has been selected.

And the reason is because it was

the only entity which was completed inside that box.

I click outside for unselect

that and I will repeat the operation one box.

You can see, you can take right now that the only entity

completed here is that it just,

this one has been selected again.

On the contrary, if my selection

goes from the right to the left,

we can see that this window,

this box is made by a discontinuous line.

Then everything inside that box,

even when it is not completed, will be selected.

I release.

And here we are.

This adds this another ads on the surface being selected.

This time, the same story when I am

working with this 3D cube,

if I click and hold and I do

this selection box from the left to the right.

And I release here

just this line was complete and then it is selected.

On the contrary, if

my box goes from the right to the left, e.g.

two here, these three edges where inside that box

and have been selected and the same

story with these two surfaces.

Easy.

Eventually we have a third option for

selecting entities when we are working with a 2D entity,

if I click once in the surface,

we already know that it has been selected.

But if I click twice,

then I am selecting

the surface plus all the bounding edges.

We can go to this option as well.

If I click on the surface,

then right button select bounding edges.

As you can see here,

we have more different options.

Let's see how this works with 3D cube.

One-click on the surface,

then I select the surface,

two clicks, then I select

the surface plus the bounding edges,

and we have this third option,

three clicks on the surface, click, click, click,

and then I select everything connected at the end,

all the cube edges and

surfaces one-click outside from the drawing.

Then I unselect everything.

As you can see, it is very easy.

I recommend you to practice at home.

And in the next episode,

we will learn about the shortcuts,

which are very, very important in order to

get a very good workflow in schizo.