transfer selection to pattern

[roughsporty]

I want to create a group just for specific faces on a mesh.

So I create a group ad make a selection of the faces which i want to get into the group.

if i press the button "transfer selection to pattern" i have all the faces now in my group.

do i have to put in manually all the pattern numbers for my specific selection?

[CeeGee]

With your Group Sop selected, press Enter to enter the node's state, select point, face...and the press Enter to complete and you have a new selection.

[dbukovec]

Tried everything to have Transfer Selection To Pattern work, but no luck, maybe there is a magic workaround, but it only works like CeeGee said, altough this feature would be very usefull. Also, description of this button is missing from the help too.

[old school]

To do this in H9, simply press the ` (backquote key) or RMB on the select arrow and choose the option "Reselect For Current Tool". Now you can modify the selection and Enter to complete. This works for all SOPs.

This is an old hold-over before Houdini had proper viewport selections. This should really be removed.

[roughsporty]

ahh, thats work great, thanks :-)

With your Group Sop selected, press Enter to enter the node's state, select point, face...and the press Enter to complete and you have a new selection.

[sibarrick]

I'm sure there was a time were you could type in the name of an existing group in the pattern field and then press the transfer selection to pattern and it would expand the named group into a pattern of numbers. This was useful.