Clear Selections removes the current selection of triangles on meshes and of points on point clouds, so you can start a new selection from scratch. The geometry does not change. This guide also covers Clear Selected Edges, the drop-down item that removes selected edges, which Clear Selections leaves in place.
Clear the selected triangles or points
- In the Scene Tree, select the objects whose selection you want to remove.
- Click Select › Clear Selections, or press Ctrl+X (Cmd+X on macOS).
The command works at once, without a panel:
- On every selected mesh, the selected triangles become unselected.
- On every selected point cloud, the selected points become unselected.
- Objects that are not selected in the Scene Tree keep their selection.
- Selected edges stay selected. To remove them, use Clear Selected Edges.
A tool you are working in, such as Select Primitives, stays open, so you can start a new selection right away. The same button is on the Points tab and on the toolbar above the viewport. To get the selection back, use Undo (Ctrl+Z, or Cmd+Z on macOS).
To remove the selected part of the model instead of the selection, use Delete Selected. To select everything except the current selection, use Inverse Selection.
Clear Selected Edges
Selected edges are stored separately from selected triangles. You get them from Edge Selector, Select Creases by Angle, Partitioner or Select Boundary Edges, and they are shown as colored lines on the mesh.
To remove them:
- In the Scene Tree, select the meshes.
- Open the drop-down arrow next to Select › Clear Selections and choose Clear Selected Edges.
The selected edges of all selected meshes are cleared; the selected triangles stay. Clear Selected Edges has no keyboard shortcut. Undo restores the edges.
Clear the selected edges before you run a tool that treats them as boundaries, unless you want those boundaries: Expand to Components, Select Component and Keep Largest Component stop at selected edges.
