All the softwares have something like this. I need to select only those from inside this wall. since its a thousands, its hard to select the ones I want to delete without selecting the ones I dont want to remove. Are there a way?
If you use tags, you can easily choose what is visible. Turn off the wall tag in this case.
Have you tried using the Outliner panel?
What criteria do you want the software to use to guess what you want to delete and what not?
I need a simple criteria that understands when I select in a proper way (for exemple) sliding the rectangle right or left with the selection tool and it selects only the objects I am viewing. Not all the others that I canât see.
Iâve set a shortcut key to display X-Ray Mode. One on X-Ray, Iâve been pretty successful to select objects behind the front plane.
Do you know that itâs different if you use left-to-right selection than right-to-left?
And do you use tags? What about components?
Hide Rest of Model?
Hide Similar Components?
Lasso Select?
With Selection Toys extension
If Iâm reading the question correctly, he wants to be able to select the objects that are inside the wall in order to delete them, without selecting the ones outside the wall. He wants the face to act as a limit on the selection.
I donât know if thatâs possible or not.
Possibly. In my clip, the large box is the wall, and the small ones are the objects inside the wall. 
However, if you organize your model well and use the necessary tools (native or extensions), you can usually make the selection you need. There may be isolated cases that would require other types of selection tools.
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Thatâs not how a window select works..
You are right d13tz. Thatâs what I need.
I receive skp file already done from other disorgarnized people. It takes a lot of time to put them in tags and etc. And even If I put, selecting only the rounded shapes objects that is inside the wall, so I can delete, would take a lot of time since the project is huge and there are those enscape lights all inside the walls. Would be amazing if there was a way to do what it needs to be done 
Maybe you should work on training those people to make organized models. It would make what they do easier and it would make your job easier and more efficient.
You are right, but the problem is that I dont know them
You could certainly get to know them, couldnât you?
Or ask them to select and delete what you donât want.
No because they work for different architects on other cities and part of the world. And Those architects send it to me
You have my sympathies.
when I ask them they never respond or do it
Or maybe only a few secondsâŚ
Deleting some V-ray lights (probably the Enscape ones have a specific name), located inside a group, located inside another group⌠and so on.
Sure, there are lots of âbest practicesâ that we all should follow but in the real world sometimes things are messy, I get stuck with big unorganized models from time to time with loads of raw geometry that Iâm not in a position to demand it be fixed, it falls on me.
I have also wished for a âvisual faces onlyâselection option, that is the option to only select faces that are visible to the camera at that moment, not the ones on the other side of the object.
So @CarlosPeixoto you must become a selection ninja. Explore some Boolean like multistep selections using the modifier keys for +, -, and +/- you can add and subtract specific things from the current selection while orbiting around. And yes the left hand selection box and the right hand selection box do different things, check that out. Also as a last resort you can use section planes to remove parts of the geometry you want to omit for the moment, canât select whatâs not there
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Hi Riley,
in the same context, you can select only the faces visible to the camera, using the Vertex Tools extension.
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Sweet, I didnât know that option. I have vertex tools, Iâll check it out, Thanks!
Youâre welcome, Riley!
If you have Artisan, try âSelect Brushâ, it will only select the faces you âpaint with the brushâ.
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