When you draw a selection box around something (such as the window frame on a house) Sketchup also selects everything behind it. How can I get Sketchup to select only what is visible?
Geo, thank you for the answer! I apologize for not having located the answer myself. It must be tiring answering such questions when all the user has to do is look it up first. Please forgive me.
If you use a drag box, the selection tool will always get everything within (left-to-right) or touching (right-to-left) the box, regardless of whether the entities are obscured in the view by closer ones. There are various ways you can deal with this:
- as in the training video Geo referenced, switch to parallel mode, orbit the view so that you are looking perpendicular to the original view, and then drag the box so it gets only the original “front”. Depending on complexity of the model, this may still get more or less than you wanted, requiring you to add or deselect anything extra. When you are happy with the selection, orbit back to the original orientation (and switch back to perspective if you like).
- hide the entities that are “behind” either by placing them temporarily on a non-visible layer, or by explicitly hiding them via Edit->Hide. The selection tool does not include hidden or non-visible entities.
- bite the bullet and click-select them one by one
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You’ve very welcome @dreamer9450
No apology necessary. We’re here to help.
Answering such questions is rather effortless compared to other work.
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Hi, I have made a Sketch Extensions which aim to solve the problem to deselect any entity the camera is NOT viewing.
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Hi, I can’t find this extension anywhere. From the description it seems to match my problem.