Select tool in Model Builder creates new feature class

[NeilCurri]

Does anyone know why does the Select tool in Model Builder creates a new feature class? I only want to populate values in a field in the attribute table based on the selection and keep the rest of the features. If I were doing this manually, the features that satisfied the query would simply be highlighted and I could open the attribute table and populate the data in the selected features. But when using the Select tool in Model Builder, it wants to put the selection into a new feature class, discarding the features that don't satisfy the query.

[KevinHibma]

Hello,

There are two tools which are similar, but differ in their use and output.
Select, which you're using extracts the values which satisfy your query into a new featureclass.
Based on your notes I think you'll want to use "Select Layer by Attribute" within your model. This keeps the layer but places a selection set on it (like you see in ArcMap with the selected features).

Does anyone know why does the Select tool in Model Builder creates a new feature class? I only want to populate values in a field in the attribute table based on the selection and keep the rest of the features. If I were doing this manually, the features that satisfied the query would simply be highlighted and I could open the attribute table and populate the data in the selected features. But when using the Select tool in Model Builder, it wants to put the selection into a new feature class, discarding the features that don't satisfy the query.