"Box Selection" in a 2D Techdraw drawing

[ToniTen]

Hello everybody. Here's my FreeCAD data:

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OS: Ubuntu 18.04.5 LTS (XFCE/xubuntu)
Word size of OS: 64-bit
Word size of FreeCAD: 64-bit
Version: 0.19.
Build type: Release
Branch: unknown
Hash: 035993c96862b3b54a472be0e3eb446f6a23bd7c
Python version: 3.6.9
Qt version: 5.9.5
Coin version: 4.0.0a
OCC version: 7.3.0
Locale: Spanish/Spain (es_ES)

I've been following with FreeCAD for a while, and I'm impressed with how things are evolving, to the point that I'm trying to move my workflows to it. As part of making technical drawings for manufacturing, I often need to add a lot of Dimensions, and quite often, I then need to format and align them afterwards. I've been using the wonderful TDChainDistances macro from https://github.com/reox/FreeCAD_macros for this. However, it is bothersome to control-click to select large numbers of dimensions, and prone to error. and yesterday I swear I managed to "Box/rectangle" select multiple dimensions so I could handle them at the same time, but I've been unable to reproduce this. Was I dreaming? I've tried looking for this, on the wiki, forums, and even on external sites, with no luck. All the references to box selection are for the 3D view (which is very handy), which is not what I'm looking for.

[Syres]

yesterday I swear I managed to "Box/rectangle" select multiple dimensions so I could handle them at the same time, but I've been unable to reproduce this. Was I dreaming?

I think you were dreaming as I'm not aware this can be done, if you have only a few dimensions that do not need selecting then why not run this macro to select all DistanceX and DistanceY dimensions and then you only have de-select the few not required?

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doc = App.ActiveDocument
for obj in doc.Objects: 
    if obj.isDerivedFrom("TechDraw::DrawViewDimension"):
        if obj.Type == 'DistanceX' or obj.Type == 'DistanceY':
            Gui.Selection.addSelection(doc.Name,obj.Name)

[chrisb]

Moved to TechDraw forum.

[wandererfan]

I managed to "Box/rectangle" select multiple dimensions so I could handle them at the same time, but I've been unable to reproduce this.

There is no code in TechDraw to implement rubber band selection. The only way I know to select multiple items on the page is ctrl-select. In the tree you can do the usual ctrl-select or shift-select.