Dunconius Posted March 20, 2013 Share Posted March 20, 2013 Can i change the cursor/selection settings so that everything that is even partially covered by the marquee is selected? Ideally i want it to behave like the AutoCAD selection tool, where a marquee drawn from right to left will select anything completely covered by the marquee but when drawn from left to right it will select anything that the marquee touches? I am constantly frustrated when i want to select a small part of a drawing/group and have to zoom all the way out in order to find a empty space to start drawing the marquee so i don't accidentally move items behind what i want to select. Quote Link to comment
Kevin McAllister Posted March 20, 2013 Share Posted March 20, 2013 Hold down Alt or Option (Mac) while dragging your marquee. Anything it crosses will be selected. KM Quote Link to comment
Dunconius Posted March 20, 2013 Author Share Posted March 20, 2013 Great! now is there a way to swap it so that's the default setting? Is there a way to make the selection tool not select something that i am hovering over? ie, I have a several small rectangles sitting inside a larger rectangle and i want to select the smaller ones with a marquee. if i'm zoomed in and try to draw a selection marquee around the them, it instead grabs and moves the larger one in the background. how can i work around this without having to zoom all the way out? Quote Link to comment
P Retondo Posted March 21, 2013 Share Posted March 21, 2013 With the selection tool enabled, push "J" and click to get coincident objects, which are displayed in a window. For overlapping or closely bunched objects - vw tells you there are coincident objects with a little "*" cue. Quote Link to comment
Dunconius Posted March 21, 2013 Author Share Posted March 21, 2013 Hmm, ok, i think that only works with overlapping 3D objects. I'm dealing with 2D rectangles with a fill (that's just the way they do it in this office). Is there perhaps a view setting so that everything (even 2D filled shapes) is seen in wireframe? I think that would solve my problem. Quote Link to comment
Dieter @ DWorks Posted March 21, 2013 Share Posted March 21, 2013 Hold the shift key at the beginning, and release it while dragging. The shift key makes sure you don't select the object you click on. Quote Link to comment
Dunconius Posted March 21, 2013 Author Share Posted March 21, 2013 Yay! thank you so much Quote Link to comment
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