More about the Multi-Selection

You can edit the a multi-output feature.

• When editing a multi-output feature, you can only select the elements belonging to the multi-output feature in the specification tree (not in the 3D area).
• Multi-selection is available when editing a single feature: double-click it in the specification tree and click the bag icon to replace it or add new elements.
• Multi-output features and elements aggregated under a multi-output feature can be edited separately, simply by double-clicking it in the specification tree. Elements can be modified (added, replaced, or removed): the corresponding multi-output feature is automatically updated.

You can copy/paste as result a multi-output feature:

• if the paste destination is a geometrical set, a geometrical set containing the multi-output feature's elements is created.
• if the paste destination is an ordered geometrical set or a solid body, an ordered geometrical set containing the multi-output feature's elements is created.

Refer to Infrastructure User's Guide : Pasting Using the Paste Special... Command for further information.

If you copy/paste features that belong to a multi-output feature and have a least one literal (for instance, Translate, Rotate or Scaling commands), any modification of one of the features' literal leads to the modification of all the other features and the suppression of the first feature resets all the other features' literals.

You can manually remove features belonging to a multi-output feature without entering the edition command.

You can do it either by using the Delete or Cut capability.

• If at least two children remain in the multi-output feature, its structure is kept.
• If only one feature remains in the multi-output feature, its structure becomes useless and is removed.

You may find one or several elements are in error under a multi-output feature.

• When one or several elements are in error under a multi-output feature (during creation or edition), an error message is issued after clicking Preview (Update Error) or OK (Update Diagnosis) and displays all features in error.
• The Datum capability is available. If an element is in error, it cannot be created as a datum element; only elements that could be generated from the multi-selection are created.
• If an element of a multi-output is in error while being updated, the multi-output feature itself appears in the Update Diagnosis dialog box. Note that you can delete the multi-output feature, but not the erroneous element.

  For more ingormation about update, refer to Part Design User's Guide: About Updating Your Design and Updating Your Design.

This sub-topic provides miscellaneous additional information about selecting elements using the Multi-Output capability.

• You cannot select a geometrical set that belongs to another representation as an input. You can only select a geometrical set belonging to the same representation or a feature belonging to another representation.
• You can manually deactivate all the elements of a multi-output. Similarly, you can activate all the elements of a deactivated multi-output feature. For further information, refer to Deactivating Elements.
• Unshared features are aggregated under the parent command that created them and put in No Show in the specification tree. Shared features are not aggregated under the parent command.
• You can move a multi-output feature to another body. Note that you cannot move some elements of the multi-output alone but only the whole multi-output. For further information, refer to Managing Geometrical Sets.