Hi Tim,

> One select gives included solids
> Two selects gives included faces
> Three selects gives included edges

Hi Tim, there is actually a way to target faces with an area selection right now. You need to first "prime the pump" by selecting at least one face with a click.

Once you have selected one face, that object will be in face selection mode, which means that any further selections on it (either clicks, or area selects, or even invert or select all) will target faces.

If you want to area select some faces that are hard to click on, one trick you can use is to do the initial face selection on just the biggest one that is easiest to grab. Then that sets the selection mode for that object, so you can do further area selections to target the faces you are really interested in. Once you are done with that, click on that big face once more to deselect it.

The same thing works with edges - if you want to target edges, select one edge first with a drill-in click and then you can area select further ones.


I think there would be some complications to change things to work the way you are describing above, if I understand you correctly. The biggest one would be that sometimes you may want to do more than one area selection to get all the faces that you want. If it worked like you describe, you would be limited to only doing one single area select to get your faces because the next area select would switch to grab edges instead of grabbing more faces...

- Michael