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Re: Automatic part selection query
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lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.cad
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Wed, 7 Mar 2001 21:01:18 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.mlcad, Michael Lachmann writes:
> In lugnet.cad.mlcad, Daniel Crichton writes:
> > On the subject of part selection, how about an option to capture all parts
> > in a selection box rather than just the first ones found in the z-ordering.
> That would need a lot of time, since MLCad does not have any information
> about parts behind other parts in z order - which means it would have to go
> through the list of all parts and see if it's within the selection rectangle.
> Also I imagine that most people would be confused when suddenly parts not
> visible on the screen would be selected by the bounding box selection.
So you are determining what to select based on something on the screen? I
had expected you were doing it by coordinate filtering (but that may explain
why you don't support selection in 3D)
Personally I find it much more confusing not to select everything in the
area. Maybe make this a preference option?
++Lar
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| "Larry Pieniazek" <lpieniazek@mercator.com> wrote in message news:G9uIE6.qq@lugnet.com... (...) explain (...) If it wasn't too much work to add a routine to do it I'd be happy to wait a bit longer for parts to be selected if I knew that everything (...) (26 years ago, 8-Mar-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Automatic part selection query
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| (...) That would need a lot of time, since MLCad does not have any information about parts behind other parts in z order - which means it would have to go through the list of all parts and see if it's within the selection rectangle. Also I imagine (...) (26 years ago, 7-Mar-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.cad)
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