Selecting very many parts?

[MichailS]

Hi

I got a STEP assembly that opened to be many hundred parts in Pro/E.

Now, if I want to delete or suppress about half of them because they belong to a structure above the half I want to look at, I have to hunt and pick each and every one manually in the window, because the part tree is not in any kind of order.

Is there a smarter way to do this? Should I not be able to just left-click and draw a square in the window, selecting everything within it? "Select region" only works in 2D?

Edited by: MichailS

 

[spidernate]

You can do a find by part name and then delete/supress multiple instances of a part. You can use wildcards as well.

 

[kdem]

You could also create a zone and remove components inside or outside of it.

 

[MichailS]

Thank you for your replies!

spidernate:
The parts all have different names. And even the components that would reasonably be the same are different. :| I am looking at a tree with 642 parts, almost all having different numbers.

kdem:
Zones are new to me, I shall study that right away. Thanks!


I realize I should have posted this in the Assembly Tricks forum. Sorry.