realthunder wrote: ↑Sun Jan 23, 2022 10:01 pm
Well, it ambiguous to the software what the user's intention is when selecting in 3D view. If you are using the upstream FreeCAD, just repeatedly click the same face of an object in the 3D view to select higher hierarchical object. If you are using my branch, this is an option that needs to be turn on to work.
I would like to reiterate the importance of having top level access at first click, second click children, third click children of children. Working now with links on an architecture project is really difficult, as things are moving all the time, and I always have to either triple click and check in the tree window if the right things are getting selected.
Here is a practical example:
I have a chair as a separate file with two groups - 3d and 2d (linework representation for techdraw views). A group link is created with the two groups selected.
The group link is then linked into the working file, where being able to transform the group, I need to click three times or select the group in the outliner. That's all fine for a single group. However, I am linking in all furniture this way to be able to create sublinks to the 2d and group that independently for techdraw views
Now, let's say I have three chairs as group links in the working file and I want to move them and rotate them. I cannot right click on all three groups and transform them with the gizmo at the same time, so I have to use the draft move and rotate tools. Selecting all three group links in the viewport is impossible with three click + ctrl to select multiple, so I need to select them in outliner. Since the draft transform tools don't keep the selection after the operation, once the objects have been moved, then I need to go again in the outliner, select the three groups and then rotate them.
If initially the groups are selected instead of the children objects, then this whole process becomes much less painful.
Pinging yorik here, as maybe it's as much an arch challenge as group link challenge.
Also paullee who is experimenting with links for arch objects