NURBS Modeling

January 24, 2003

By Brian J. Immel

Paint Selection Tool

Edit > Paint Selection Tool

ii. One of the most useful tools in Maya for quickly and precisely selecting the components types of geometry you need to work with. This tool is not limited to just NURBS. It works with any surface type.
Change the brush size by holding down the b key and middle-mouse right to make it bigger or to the left to make it smaller. Be sure the cursor icon changes from a brush to the left-right arrow icon. Holding down the b key resizes any tool that uses a brush.
The components you paint will turn yellow which means they have been selected.
With this tool, there is no need to shift-select multiple component types.
To deselect multiple areas, either hold down the ctrl key or go the tool options and change Paint Operation from Select to Unselect.

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