Selection Modes    

• all the Instances except the one that you first selected (Inversion Mode),
• or the "Children" (sub-products) of one or several Part Numbers within the Specification Tree (Children Mode),
• or all elements, except "Children", other than those you had selected first.
• or "All" the CATIA products (All Mode).

Selection Mode: Inversion

1. Right-click 4cubes (4 cubes.1).

2. Activate the Selection Mode > Inversion contextual command.

The result is: All instances except 4cubes (4 cubes.1) are selected.

Selection Mode: Children

1. Right-click 4cubes (4 cubes.1)

2. Activate the Selection Mode > Children contextual command.

The result is: 4cubes (4 cubes.1) and all its "children" (sub-products) are selected.

Selection Mode: Others

1. Select the first and the third occurrence of 4cubes (4 cubes.1).

2. Right-click the first selected 4cubes (4 cubes.1).

3. Select the contextual command: Selection Mode > Others.

The result is: All nodes are selected (product and sub-products) except those that were previously selected.

4. Right-click the second occurrence of 4cubes (4 cubes.2) (automatically selected thanks to the Others command).

5. Select the Representation > Deactivate Node contextual command.

The result is: the second and the fourth occurrences of 4cubes are no longer in the geometry space.

If you want to restore all the occurrences of 4cubes in the Geometry space, you need to select the root product 16cubes and click the Activate Terminal Node contextual command.

Selection Mode: All

1. Right-click 4cubes (4 cubes.1).

2. Select the contextual command: Selection Mode > All.

The result is: All nodes are selected.