Hi yakas,
> I was looking for functions similar to revit that let you toggle
> between loops on different planes that the same edge.
There's nothing 100% exactly the same as that, but some of these other tools like select loop could be handy in particular situations.
Also one other note for window select - normally you do window select by clicking on an empty area and then dragging the mouse. But if your screen is totally full of stuff like if you're zoomed in a ways then there may not be any blank area to start the window on, in which case you can instead hold down shift+ctrl when you click down - that forces window selection to engage no matter where you click even if it's not on an empty area.
Sometimes if you're working in the 3D view it's enough to just tilt your view in such a way that you can capture a planar slice in a window without actually needing to go to the side view.
Also when you do window select there are 2 different modes for it, depending on whether you drag it from left-to-right or from right-to-left, with left to right it only captures things completely inside of the window while right-to-left captures anything that even partially touches the window.
See here for some other selection window tips and some demo videos:
http://moi3d.com/forum/index.php?webtag=MOI&msg=4167.22
http://moi3d.com/forum/index.php?webtag=MOI&msg=4167.18
http://moi3d.com/forum/index.php?webtag=MOI&msg=3226.4
http://moi3d.com/forum/index.php?webtag=MOI&msg=2606.2
http://moi3d.com/forum/index.php?webtag=MOI&msg=3112.4
Also one of the new things in V3 is a "selection filter" that you can set on the scene browser to limit selection to only target a certain class of objects (like only objects with a certain name, of a certain type like only curves and not solids, or only objects of a certain style, etc...). You activate that by doing a ctrl+click on the selection dot on the right-hand side of a scene browser item. Some more info on that here:
http://moi3d.com/forum/index.php?webtag=MOI&msg=4509.4
Hope that gives you some more ideas on some of the different selection tools that are available.
- Michael |
