Dotted lines appearing around a component on the second mouse click

When I click twice, quickly, on an existing component it becomes boxed in dotted lines and all other objects in the model grey out. What is the program trying to tell me with this? What am I then able to do with the component that I can’t do by selecting it with the select tool?

You have opened the component for edit.

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It’s telling you that the component is open for editing. You can now make edits to the geometry in the component.

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