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 From:  BurrMan
3306.5 In reply to 3306.4 
>>>Also one other question - instead of having a special select circle command, what do you think about having a command that would take any previously drawn closed curve as the selection shape? >>>


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 From:  Grendel
3306.6 
I was thinking anything partially in would be selected if internal was selected and anything partially out if external was selected.

On the any close curve shape I am struggling to see a use for it without alot of forethought. If I had something with allot of unique selection criteria I guess it would be handy.
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 From:  Michael Gibson
3306.7 In reply to 3306.6 
Hi Grendel, one thing that might be more typical would be to have a "deselect inside" mode that would be used instead of a "select everything outside" mode.

That way you could do a "select everything outside" by doing a select all + deselect inside the circle, and you could also do other things like make several swiss cheese like empty selection areas instead of only one deselected area.


> On the any close curve shape I am struggling to see a use
> for it without alot of forethought. If I had something with allot
> of unique selection criteria I guess it would be handy.

Well, the part that could be good about it would be that it would cover selection by a circle as well. Would it be too weird if you had to draw the selection circle beforehand as a regular curve object?

Otherwise, if doing a kind of "drag a selection circle" mode like you were mentioning originally, it would probably be something that would occur in screen space with a drag of the mouse, so probably there would not be specific radius values and stuff available for that.

But being based off of a curve would let you use any variety of object snaps or drawing tools to build the outline...

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 From:  Grendel
3306.8 
Screen space tool was what I was thinking, I was just going off what I thought of for the sequence of mouse gestures not an actual radius input value. I am sure it would be quicker to just do it in screen space rather than draw out a curve just to be a reference for the command.

Hot Key circle select
pick center LMB
drag radius LMB
select in or out RMB In or Out could be a visual arrow cue like you use for the image planes.

Now that I think about it the drag radius LMB step would just be a reference for another radius value that would determine inside or outside selection.
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