Topic: Autocad Vanilla - Select back face?

[Josh Nieman]

I think I already know the answer, but does anyone know if I can select the BACK face when using commands such as Solidedit > Face > etc or Presspull?

I know in Inventor if you hover over an area for a fraction of a second, a left/right arrow will pop up, letting you cycle through possible entries, meaning if you look at an ISOMETRIC cube, and hover over a face, you can also cycle to select the back face without having to orbit around to look directly at it... is there any way to accomplish this in Autocad?  Via add-ons or anything?

[deegeecees]

Ctrl+Select will turn "cycling" on, then once you've got your face highlighted, right-click or Enter.

Hope thats what your looking for.

[Josh Nieman]

Ctrl+Select will turn "cycling" on, then once you've got your face highlighted, right-click or Enter.

Hope thats what your looking for.

I can't seem to get that to work... I searched the help file and found similar techniques, mainly SHIFT+SPACEBAR or CTRL+SPACEBAR, but were only for selecting multiple, or different objects... whole objects, not just a back face on the same object.

[Bob]

I just select the edge and then remove the unwanted faces

or

3d orbit until the back face is the front face?

[deegeecees]

I just select the edge and then remove the unwanted faces ...

Thats my preferred method as well, sorry bout the misinfo Josh, was thinking it worked for solid faces as well.

 

[Josh Nieman]

I just select the edge and then remove the unwanted faces

Yea, that's what I do, just thought I'd pick the brain of some educated folks and see if there was a solution.  Sometimes asking a question you THINK you know the answer to reveals surprises!

Thanks anyways guys!

[mjfarrell]

You may want to look at the variable IMPLIEDFACE

Through the IMPLIEDFACE system variable, you can specify whether or not bounded area can be detected and pressed or pulled.

Controls the detection of implied faces. This variable must be set to 1 if you want to select and modify implied faces.

0
 Implied faces cannot be detected.
 
1
 Implied faces can be detected.
 

[Josh Nieman]

thanks, I wasn't aware of that system variable, but sadly that isn't the fix.