Hi Michael,

I was fooling around and I tried filtering on a "style" the default in this case. I have a single solid (visible) there that I wanted to move and it was easier to move it without face visible, so I hide the faces, move my object and then made the faces visible again. As I did that, all other objects (with faces) on other styles became visible as well.

I would have thought that having a filter on the default style would have prevented object with other style to be affected. Is this the normal behaviour?

Basically what I wanted to do was to see my object in wireframe, move it around and view it in shaded or solid "mode" again. And of course, all this with without affecting all other object I may have hidden from view by which ever means. Is this possible? If yes then how?

Thanks,
Felix

PS. I also tried to put a filter on the object itself but that didn't work either.

Hi Felix - setting a filter prevents objects from being _selected_ , not necessarily from being modified if they were already selected before you set the filter.

So if you don't want existing selected objects to be targeted by whatever command you're going to run next, you'll want to deselect everything first before you go to set the filter.

Basically the filter is something that controls selection, when it is set only objects that match the filter will be targeted for selection actions, including selecting things with the mouse, select all, using the scene browser to select things, etc...

By not clearing the existing selection it allows for things like building up a particular selection one step at a time like filter in a few different steps to get the final selection that may have some combination of things in it. If filtering did not allow for the previous selection to come through stuff like that would not be possible.

Please let me know if this does not explain things - if you are seeing something different than what I am describing it would help if I could see an example file.

- Michael

Hi Michael,

thanks for the info "to selector not to select..."

I just found a script on Petr's page to turn off/on faces on selected object(s) only. That should work for me and I'll stay away from the "types".

Thanks Michael,
Felix