The Graphics window in the COMSOL Desktop highlights geometric entities at different stages of selection. A geometric entity is highlighted in red, blue, green, yellow, or with no highlight (gray) to indicate its status.
When assigning geometric entities to a node and you hover over that entity in the Graphics window, click once to add it to a selection list. See Figure 6-5 for an example. If you select the
Require click in Graphics window to activate hovering check box under
Selections on the
Graphics and Plot Windows page in the
Preferences dialog box, then you must first click once in the Graphics window before you can hover and click to select. See also
Selection Colors below.
Next to the Settings window’s selection list, there is an
Activate Selection button to toggle between turning on
and off
selections for that feature node’s selection list; that is, making the selections active for that selection list.
When the button is turned off, the selection mode is a preselection that is used for a selection that you add to the model by right-clicking in the
Graphics window (see
Right-Clicking to Select Geometric Entities and Add Physics Features) or from the toolbar, and the selection for the current node in the model tree is highlighted in yellow in the
Graphics window. See
Figure 6-3.