Inv10sp3a : Selection / Highlight BUG

[Anonymous]

Try this for yourself, somebody might want to try other versions.

I'm basing this on the Windows Standard that using Shift will select everything in between (including the items selected) and using
Ctrl just includes the item selected.

Select an item in the graphics window (g/w). Hold down Shift and select something in the g/w about five items away. I happen to have
five drive belts in a row in the g/w and in the browser, they were ideal for identifying this little anomaly.

The selection behaves as if Ctrl had been held down.

The same thing happens if the first item is selected in the browser and the second item in the g/w.

This isn't consistent with Windows selection standard whilst selection in the browser is consistent.

Confused ... I was ... ! ! !


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[Anonymous]

That's really strange because it works as expected here. I have used this a lot, for example, when turning off or on the visibilility of lots of parts at once. I am using IV10 SP3a/XP Pro SP2. I can't imagine what is causing the problem there.

[Anonymous]

Stuart,
Is that when selecting in the Graphics Window or in the Browser? When I use
Shift in the Graphics Window I get exactly the same thing happening as
Duncan i.e. only the individual items I clicked on are selected in the
Browser not the ones in-between. I've never tried this method in the
Graphics Window so have no idea if the behaviour has changed.

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wrote in message news:5082773@discussion.autodesk.com...
That's really strange because it works as expected here. I have used this a
lot, for example, when turning off or on the visibilility of lots of parts
at once. I am using IV10 SP3a/XP Pro SP2. I can't imagine what is causing
the problem there.

[Anonymous]

Sorry, I didn't read the post properly. It does not work that way in the graphics window and neither would I expect it to. There is no progression or 'list' to select in the graphics window so how would IV know which parts to select?

[Anonymous]

... so how would IV know which parts to select?

Inv created the list in the browser and has access and can reference that data at all times.



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Duncan
"Humour ... is one man shouting gibberish in the face of authority, and proving by fabricated insanity that nothing could be as mad
as what passes for ordinary living."
(Terence 'Spike' Milligan K.B.E., 1918-2002)
www.autodesk.co.uk/inventorjobs

[Anonymous]

Are you suggesting that IV should select all the parts that exist in the browser between the parts selected in the graphics window?

[Anonymous]

If you were to hold down Shift and select them in the browser it would, so why not in the g/w ?

Consistency.


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Duncan
"Humour ... is one man shouting gibberish in the face of authority, and proving by fabricated insanity that nothing could be as mad
as what passes for ordinary living."
(Terence 'Spike' Milligan K.B.E., 1918-2002)
www.autodesk.co.uk/inventorjobs



wrote in message news:5082814@discussion.autodesk.com...
Are you suggesting that IV should select all the parts that exist in the browser between the parts selected in the graphics window?

[Anonymous]

Hi

I think shift-select in the browser and shift-select in the graphics window are pretty different things - just because parts are near to one another in the browser does not mean that they would be adjacent in the image. For example some of the stuff I do could have sequential parts in the browser, but on the model they could be 4m apart. Would making these parts and everything inbetween invisible in one go be useful?

As a side note, what I'd really like is the ability to use a drag window to multi select parts. THAT would save me HOURS of time.

Shona

[Anonymous]

It would need a priority and I would suggest the priority should the order of the parts in the browser.


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Duncan
"Humour ... is one man shouting gibberish in the face of authority, and proving by fabricated insanity that nothing could be as mad
as what passes for ordinary living."
(Terence 'Spike' Milligan K.B.E., 1918-2002)
www.autodesk.co.uk/inventorjobs



wrote in message news:5082838@discussion.autodesk.com...
Hi

I think shift-select in the browser and shift-select in the graphics window are pretty different things - just because parts are
near to one another in the browser does not mean that they would be adjacent in the image. For example some of the stuff I do could
have sequential parts in the browser, but on the model they could be 4m apart. Would making these parts and everything inbetween
invisible in one go be useful?

As a side note, what I'd really like is the ability to use a drag window to multi select parts. THAT would save me HOURS of time.

Shona