# Selection of object created by Dynamo?

**URL:** <https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/selection-of-object-created-by-dynamo/111037>\
**Category:** Civil 3D\
**Created:** [July 1, 2025, 6:32am UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/selection-of-object-created-by-dynamo/111037 "2025-07-01T06:32:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![HenrikJ](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forum.dynamobim.com/henrikj/32/180906_2.png) [@HenrikJ](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/HenrikJ)\
**Post date:** [July 1, 2025, 6:32am UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/selection-of-object-created-by-dynamo/111037/1 "2025-07-01T06:32:50Z")

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Hi,

I just have a quick question if I might have missed this.

Is there an OOTB node for selecting specific objects within Civil 3D Modelspace that I specify in Dynamo?

Pretty much exactly what this node from The Civil Nodes does. Obviously I can, and do, use this node. But I usually try to minimize the number of Packages that are required since that makes the barrier to entry for using the scripts a lot lower for my colleagues.

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**Author:** ![AdammReilly](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forum.dynamobim.com/adammreilly/32/95902_2.png) [@AdammReilly](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/AdammReilly)\
**Post date:** [July 1, 2025, 12:17pm UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/selection-of-object-created-by-dynamo/111037/2 "2025-07-01T12:17:45Z")

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Under the AutoCAD node groups, you have 3 options for selection: Pick Point, Select Object, Select Objects.

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/dynamobim/original/3X/f/6/f6594588227e81a3ca23775df659a9bf7bebf212.png)  
One of these two should be what you’re looking for.

There are also several nodes under the Civil 3D\Selection for directly selecting civil objects, if those could further help:

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/dynamobim/original/3X/e/a/ea55d903db0e5fc45eeb5fd0db0b8c0f570d2faa.png)

These are in Civil 3D 2025 and 2026. Some of the nodes were added in 2025 and aren’t available in previous versions.

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**Author:** ![HenrikJ](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forum.dynamobim.com/henrikj/32/180906_2.png) [@HenrikJ](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/HenrikJ)\
**Post date:** [July 1, 2025, 12:40pm UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/selection-of-object-created-by-dynamo/111037/3 "2025-07-01T12:40:55Z")

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Thanks for the answer but the question isn’t how to select objects so that I can work with them within Dynamo.

I want to know if there is an out of the box solution for creating a selection set in Civil 3D for the objects that Dynamo has produced.

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**Author:** ![AdammReilly](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forum.dynamobim.com/adammreilly/32/95902_2.png) [@AdammReilly](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/AdammReilly)\
**Post date:** [July 1, 2025, 12:48pm UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/selection-of-object-created-by-dynamo/111037/4 "2025-07-01T12:48:02Z")

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Ah, I misunderstood 🙂

I do not know of one, unfortunately ☹

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**Author:** ![apegaia](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forum.dynamobim.com/apegaia/32/175766_2.png) [@apegaia](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/apegaia)\
**Post date:** [July 1, 2025, 2:19pm UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/selection-of-object-created-by-dynamo/111037/5 "2025-07-01T14:19:44Z")

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I don’t think so, but I’m almost sure you could mimic it using python. Just don’t know if it’s worth it…