About Selection with only browser

 From:  Michael Gibson
4194.20 In reply to 4194.12 
Hi Pilou,

> The file ;)
> You must find one "red cube" ;)

Follow the same first 2 steps that I wrote previously here:
http://moi3d.com/forum/index.php?webtag=MOI&msg=4194.6

And then for the 3rd step instead of inverting the selection, just right-click on the Edit > Hide button instead.

So do these steps:

Step 1 - right click on the eye icon for cub in the Objects section of the scene browser.

Now only boxes are being shown.


Step 2 - go to Style = Red in the scene browser, and hold down the Shift key and click on its text label.

Now the red edges and faces are selected.


Step 3 - right click on the Edit > Hide button, here:




The result is just one red box being displayed, and it's actually one less step than what I wrote originally. This method is not sensitive to the styles being assigned only to sub-objects and not to the parent.

Note that if you want to repeat these steps more than once, you may need to do the right-click in the 3rd step twice, because the way that right-click isolate function works is that the first time you use it, it makes a memory snapshot of the current display properties and then hides everything other than the current selection. Then when you use it again it restores that memory snapshot - object visibility will be the same then as before you did the isolate. So it actually works in sets of 2 clicks - 1 right click to isolate and then the 2nd right click to restore.

- Michael
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