Found it, it looked a bit different but I just had to click and change the setting to select by name. Thanks a lot :)

Here's a bit of a success image!
http://img7.imageshack.us/img7/5553/ex5m.jpg

I don't see the "status line" you are talking about, but I am leaving for the day and will look for it a little bit...

Ohhh cool! I loaded up another model just to try with and I opened the outliner like you said. I can click on a part and it kind of highlights it in the outliner and it makes it a lot easier to be...

Are these NURBS surfaces?
Yes

Is there any naming convention for the components?
In solidworks, everything does have some sort of name but it doesn't seem to export with the iges file type. I...

Yeah but if you look at this example, that finger has like 50 surfaces, I didn't do the whole thing yellow as just to show an example. It'll be a huge pain in the ass to have to click every surface...

I'm saving a solidworks assembly model as an iges file to work with it in maya for rendering purposes. I'm in the basic steps of learning the software, trying to figure out how to render well, do...