How to use "Seed & Boundary" to select for Appearances ??

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January 12, 2023
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The "Seed & Boundary" (was Surf & Bound) is great functionality. Where did it go for selecting surfaces to apply appearance?

I use "Seed & Boundary" to select surface for model actions like copy surf. I know how to use "Shift" for that. The same technique won't work for selecting surfaces in appearances. Hoping someone can tell me how. Did they take it out? Or is it just buried in the mountain of inconsistencies? Now it seems like you have to go in and carefully select all the (maybe 100's) of little surfaces manually one by one. Please tell me what I'm missing. Thank you.

Best answer by tbraxton

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Select the geometry first using seed and bound. Then apply the appearance while the selection is active.

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22-Sapphire II

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Select the geometry first using seed and bound. Then apply the appearance while the selection is active.

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12-Amethyst

Thank you very much. Just tried it, and it works. Really appreciate your time to make the quick video.

Chalk another one up for the ridiculously inconsistent User Interface. First "Seed & Boundary" is not evident. If you don't know it's there, you'll never find it. Second, some things are action then select, others (even this exact same action) are only achieved as select then action. Maybe I'll eventually become callous to this stupidity, but for right now . . . . it flies in the face of everything taught about good UI.