I was preparing for a Flow Simulation demo and realized that it would be very helpful if the Select Other command had a push pin that enabled it to stay active so you can select multiple interior faces very quickly.

Often times Flow Simulation users need to select all of the interior faces of a room/ cabinet/ box and apply a boundary condition. This requires right clicking each face, choosing Select Other, selecting the appropriate face, then repeating for each side. I know this process could be simplified slightly by assigning the Select Other command to a keyboard shortcut or mouse gesture, but having a way to select multiple faces in the Select Other tool would make it that much faster.

I thought of two different ideas for this so far:

1. Having a push pin at the top right corner of the box that will keep the tool open while selections are made keeping the faces that were hidden, hidden.

   - One problem I see with this is that you may accidentally hide a face and have to exit and relaunch the Select Other tool to show all the faces again. Maybe a "Hidden Faces" dialog could be included allowing users to show hidden faces.

2. Steal from the "Tab to Hide" function in assemblies. Make it so when the Select Other tool is active, right clicking a face hides it (current functionality) and holding Shift while right clicking where a hidden face was will show it again. Maybe holding CTRL while selecting a face would keep the dialog open for multiple selections. This would possibly eliminate the need for the push pin option.

I did find SPR 378409: 'Select other' command should support multiple entity selection. I added some information to this ER and voted for it but I still wanted to bring it up here.

I mentioned this being useful for Flow Simulation but I'm sure there are plenty of other cases where this could be helpful. Does anyone else think this would be a worthwhile function or have any other ideas to make it better?