Choosing all connected vertices of a mesh

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I am trying to edit a skeleton that I imported as a 3DS --> DXF file. It consists of many bones,
but is one object. I need to grab all the vertices of one bone, but I am having a hard time using selection by bounding box because the part of the bone in a joint is very close to an adjacent bone and I keep accidentally selecting vertices from other bones. Since the bones are separate meshes within this one object, it would be nice if I could choose a single vertex and ask to select all vertices connected to that one – that would select the bone, and I could then move it to the side, edit it at will, and move it back.

Is it possible to do this – select all vertices connected to a given vertex?

Is it possible to select one disconnected mesh in an object and make it a separate object (other than selecting all vertices of other meshes and deleting them, of course).

Thanks!

billo

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ctrl L :wink:

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OR…
select one vertice of the mesh you want and hit the L key.

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That’s it! How do y’all find this out? I’ve been reading all these tutorials, and it seems to be catch as catch can in finding these commands.

Thanks for the answer!

billo

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Actually, Ctrl-L works with the selected vertice while L works with the vertex closer to the mouse.

Martin

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These things are in the menus (in this case Select -> Linked Vertices in Edit Mode). They weren’t made for nothing, you know!