Improvement of rectangular selection

[SparkyCola]

So in addition to the "normal" selection which is currently there I'd like to add a selection that selects the whole object when it's only touched on one corner/line/point.
It could be switched like in SolidWorks where it depends if you make the selection bottom to top or top to bottom (not sure which was which). Using a key like the M key is another option however the start-point method seems simpler to me (especially when you have to switch a lot between the modes).

[bejant]

AutoCAD has a similar behavior - there is (or was) a ticket in the tracker for this (and I may have commented on it) but I don't know what became of it. Let me check...
Edit: Sorry - that will have to wait because the tracker is too slow for me now. The ticket might have been submitted by Oldestfox but I'm not sure.

[wmayer]

So in addition to the "normal" selection which is currently there I'd like to add a selection that selects the whole object when it's only touched on one corner/line/point.
It could be switched like in SolidWorks where it depends if you make the selection bottom to top or top to bottom (not sure which was which).

This is already implemented with the difference that it's not top <=> bottom/bottom <=> top but left <=> right/right <=> left.

[bejant]

This is already implemented

I didn't know - thanks! I just tested it and think I have found a glitch which can be replicated by doing this:
Create the default Cube.
Create a Sketch (I used the X-Y Plane at the default Z = 0) and make a zig-zag pattern larger than the footprint of the Cube, something like this:

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Now try the right-to-left Box Select on a portion of the Cube without intersecting the Sketch geometry and the all the Sketch geometry is selected. I'm guessing right-to-left selection uses something like a bounding box instead of using the geometry itself?

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[chrisb]

How do you perform this selection anyway? I guess it's a rubberband selection, which I don't have at all. It exists only in Sketcher.
I use the Gesture mouse model.

[wmayer]

For performance reasons it doesn't check each element of an object if it's inside the rectangle but instead it just uses an object's (projected) bounding box.

[peterl94]

How do you perform this selection anyway?

Shift + B starts the box select command (edit menu).

[Kunda1]

sort of unrelated but here's another box issue that is open on the tracker: issue #2706 - Box selection does not select dimension or text

[SparkyCola]

So in addition to the "normal" selection which is currently there I'd like to add a selection that selects the whole object when it's only touched on one corner/line/point.
It could be switched like in SolidWorks where it depends if you make the selection bottom to top or top to bottom (not sure which was which).

This is already implemented with the difference that it's not top <=> bottom/bottom <=> top but left <=> right/right <=> left.

I can't get Sketcher to select the whole line/circle/element when I only box a part of it, no matter from where I start the selection. That is what I was looking for.

[GeneFC]

I can't get Sketcher to select the whole line/circle/element when I only box a part of it, no matter from where I start the selection. That is what I was looking for.

That sort of behavior is a choice made by the program designers. I have some graphics-related programs that work on the "touch" method and other that require the entire object to be selected.

There are pluses and minuses to both approaches. The "touch" method sounds easy, but it also makes it very easy to select unwanted elements that may have portions close to the desired selection. The "entire" method is generally more definite for selection, but it is slightly more work.

I don't see an obvious advantage for one method over the other.

Just learn the "rules" and go forward.

Gene