Hi,

Does anyone know if there's a script that can expand or contract selections? So if you have one or more faces selected, it would expand the selection with the adjoining faces. I miss that a lot when making selections. I'm used to using it a lot with poly subdivision modeling.

Would be great if that would work on edges and curve/surface control points as well.

Thanks,

Metin

Hi Metin, it's not really feasible for control points because there is not currently any interface available for scripts to access the control point selection. But I think it may be possible to do something for faces and edges, I will take a look at that a while later on today.

- Michael

Cool, thanks a lot Michael!

Hi Metin,

this is expand script

script: function es(edg){ var i,f; for (i=0; i<edg.length; i++) {f=edg.item(i).getFacesOfEdge(); f.setProperty('selected',1);}} var so = moi.geometryDatabase.getSelectedObjects(), sf=so.getFaces(), i; for ( i=0; i<sf.length;i++) es(sf.item(i).getEdges()); es(so.getEdges());

and a shrink script

script: function es(edg){ var i,f; for (i=0; i<edg.length; i++) {f=edg.item(i).getFacesOfEdge(); f.setProperty('selected',0);}} var gd = moi.geometryDatabase; gd.invertSelection(); var so = gd.getSelectedObjects(), sf=so.getFaces(), i; gd.invertSelection(); for ( i=0; i<sf.length;i++) es(sf.item(i).getEdges());

Thanks Max!

@Metin - does that do what you needed?

- Michael

Brilliant! It does exactly what I meant. Many thanks, Max!

Very very usefull - thank you so much.

Is there a way to select whole islands ?

lets say i have two cubes where I select the front 2 faces and convert it to select the 2 cube`s complete faces

Hi ndrakey, re:

> lets say i have two cubes where I select the front 2 faces and convert it
> to select the 2 cube`s complete faces

Use "Select All" Ctrl+A to do that - if you have a face or edge sub-object selected, you can then use Ctrl+A / Select All to select all faces or edges of those objects. Once your selection is on a sub-object, select all will see that and select the all the same sub-objects without selecting other top level objects.

So with your cube example, if you have 2 separate cube objects, then you select one front face on each one, press Ctrl+A and then the selection will expand to all the faces on those 2 cubes.

- Michael