When you paste a group into your selection, you can choose from selection groups and from display groups. Selection groups are designed to be a temporary convenience for the user, and they do not appear with display groups in the Display Groups toolset. You can create any number of display groups. In contrast, Abaqus/CAE saves a maximum of five selection groups. Abaqus/CAE overwrites the existing selection groups if you create more than five selection groups. After you have selected the desired entities, you create a selection group by clicking mouse button 3 in the viewport and selecting Abaqus/CAE copies all of the highlighted entities into a selection group. You paste a selection group to your current selection by clicking mouse button 3 in the viewport and selecting from the menu that appears. Abaqus/CAE displays the Paste to Selection dialog box, and you can select one or more of the existing selection groups to paste to your current selection. When you paste a group, Abaqus/CAE appends the entities in the group to any other entities that you have already selected. from the menu that appears.Note: You cannot create or use selection groups if you are selecting objects in advance of selecting a procedure. |