Selecting Faces based on Normal Direction

[rgkovach]

I'm looking for something that will select faces based off how much their normals deviate from a user defined direction in space, either one of the world axes, or a prior selected face.

I could basically select all faces that are within +/- 10 degrees of the X axis.

thanks!

[joojaa]

well one cloud be made. How big selections are we ltalking about and if so what normal do you want to use the face average the corer ones or what...

I mean it could be implemented in mel but that wouldnt do for vcery large selections.

[failure]

What about using selection constraint?

• go Edit polygons->Selection->Selection constraints.
• Open Geometry->Orientation section
• choose "orientation", enter the vector and tolerance.

[joojaa]

Doh!