Connected

(default keyboard shortcut ])

The Select Connected command (Selection > Modify Selection > Connected) automatically selects all points or polygons that are connected to the currently highlighted points or polygons.

This is a powerful tool and one you should add to your memory banks. An object that is surrounded by others may not be easily selected using a volume, and may have several surface names (making name selection tedious).

Polygons that have overlapping points, but don’t share any of those points, will not be affected. Use the Merge Points command (Detail > Points > Merge Points) to make the edge shared.