Hit and miss on Shelling in Brad Tallis' tutorials
The Select Other menu you are referring to is definitely mouse position dependent. That is intentional. What that tool does is to fire a ray from the camera position all the way through the model. Anything it hits in the model, which matches one of the active selection filters, is put into the list. Changing the mouse position can definitely change the list - sometimes you are over an edge, sometimes not. So, when using Select Other, you have to be aware of where the thing you are after is in the model, relative to the mouse position. There are, of course, other ways to select things, such as rotating the view, turning off visibility of things that are in front of what you are after, etc.
Jeff Strater
Engineering Director
I don't remember much of that series now,
Yes he has clutter more often than not, (you have said, you are experimenting in and around this tutorial.)
don't fuss with Select Other,
when you can hide the obstruction and select the top face, (if that's the op you want) plain as the nose on a face.
With Select Other, move the mouse into the list, rolling down the list with the mouse will highlight each item in the window, select (click on) the right one.
Might help....
