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The ability of auto-selecting a chain of connected sketch elements, for example whan patternig or mirroring is one of those little additions that I've enjoyed in more mature and admittedly more expensive CAD packages. Not sure a screencast is realy necessary but here it is.
Yes. Selecting using ctrl or shift is OK with a sketch that has five segments, but if the profile has 20 segments it gets frustrating very quickly.
Select Chain and Select Tangent within sketches are both very useful in SW. An improvement over SW, however, would also let you choose to select a start and end segement and auto-select everything in between.
I don't know what is chain select, or how it would work, I only know that in practice, you have to select every single segment of anything you want to move, and that is very tedious. (select with square marquee is just a disaster for connected overlapping things like rectangles). Also, I bet you could make a huge mess of constraints on individual segements if you really want to constrain a whole profile (sketch object?) like a rectangle.
For the same reason that you want to be able to manipulate bodies as whole entities in 3-D, It is really obvious that you should be able to at least select (better constrain and otherwise manipulate) sketch entities such as rectangles.
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