# Preform entity selection

**URL:** <https://forum.formlabs.com/t/preform-entity-selection/12656>\
**Category:** Feature Requests & Ideas\
**Created:** [April 3, 2017, 8:23pm UTC](https://forum.formlabs.com/t/preform-entity-selection/12656 "2017-04-03T20:23:26Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![loukrezis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c77e96/32.png) [@loukrezis](https://forum.formlabs.com/u/loukrezis)\
**Post date:** [April 3, 2017, 8:23pm UTC](https://forum.formlabs.com/t/preform-entity-selection/12656/1 "2017-04-03T20:23:27Z")

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hello  
i usually print a lot of small parts and a lot of the time I need to see the name of the parts.I would like to have as an option the entity selection tool

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**Author:** ![Dudemeister](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/forum.formlabs.com/dudemeister/32/13812_2.png) [@Dudemeister](https://forum.formlabs.com/u/Dudemeister)\
**Post date:** [April 3, 2017, 10:44pm UTC](https://forum.formlabs.com/t/preform-entity-selection/12656/2 "2017-04-03T22:44:30Z")

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You mean that when you select one of the parts that have already been loaded on the preform platform, you could see the name?

That would actually be quite useful.

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**Author:** ![loukrezis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c77e96/32.png) [@loukrezis](https://forum.formlabs.com/u/loukrezis)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2017, 12:01pm UTC](https://forum.formlabs.com/t/preform-entity-selection/12656/3 "2017-04-04T12:01:05Z")

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Yes I mean that.  
Another suggestion is that when you are in edit mode to open the part in another window.It is easier to handle it.  
Also you can add collision detection feature.  
 ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/formlabs/original/2X/1/1d7b3cdffea832f036e9c1b6fc161b33a068db2d.jpg) ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/formlabs/original/2X/e/ec94f34b88254e7e1d3359fd1457d58f9ac012e1.jpg)

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**Author:** ![kevinduhe](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/forum.formlabs.com/kevinduhe/32/7999_2.png) [@kevinduhe](https://forum.formlabs.com/u/kevinduhe)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2017, 4:11pm UTC](https://forum.formlabs.com/t/preform-entity-selection/12656/4 "2017-04-04T16:11:52Z")

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Something like this would be neat.

 ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/formlabs/original/2X/f/fac676695818bf1632625381a7ac33eb61df6df2.png)

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**Author:** ![loukrezis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c77e96/32.png) [@loukrezis](https://forum.formlabs.com/u/loukrezis)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2017, 6:51am UTC](https://forum.formlabs.com/t/preform-entity-selection/12656/5 "2017-04-05T06:51:27Z")

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yes.  
I think also collision detection is very useful.

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**Author:** ![Frew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c0e974/32.png) [@Frew](https://forum.formlabs.com/u/Frew)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2017, 3:34pm UTC](https://forum.formlabs.com/t/preform-entity-selection/12656/6 "2017-04-05T15:34:33Z")

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Thanks for the suggestion! I could certainly see this being useful when you’ve a platform full of different components. I’ve forwarded this to our software team and we’ll look into it.