Select data

How to Select Data

There are many selection tools available (from left to right): Smart Teeth Selection, Smart Single Tooth Selection, Flood Fill Selection, Polyline Selection, and Brush Selection.

Smart teeth selection

• Used to automatically select all arch teeth leaving out gingival areas.
• This function is only available for the scan data acquired using "Medit Scan for Clinics" with the GPU option on.
• This selection tool is useful when you want to quickly select all the teeth.

Smart single tooth selection

• Used to automatically select a particular single tooth leaving out gingival areas.
• Click, hold and drag the mouse on a tooth area you want to select and it will only select the tooth area, leaving out the gingiva.

 Flood fill selection

• As the name suggests, this function fills and selects the area that is clicked and dragged over. Move the mouse to expand the selection.

Polyline selection

• Used to select areas within the polyline shape drawn on the screen. Left-click to draw the polyline shape and right-click to close the shape and finish the selection.

Brush selection

• Used to select all objects on a freehand-drawn path. Only the front face will be selected.
• The brush comes in three different sizes.

💡 Hints and Tips

• ”Polyline Selection” selects all areas within the polyline shape drawn on the screen, while “Brush” selects only the front-facing data.

Invert selected area

• Used to invert the selection.

Shrink selected area

• Used to reduce the selected area each time you click the button.

Expand selected area

• Used to expand the selected area each time you click the button.