Inspect Feature Ignores Initial Selection

[wsmoy]

The Inspection tool has inconsistent behavior regarding first and second selection, though I'm not sure if it counts as a bug or not. Here's what I'm seeing vs what I think it should be.

Currently:

If I have something selected and then hit Inspect, that thing shows as selection 1 (and displays all relevant measurements). Then when I click anywhere else, that new thing I clicked becomes the new selection 1. I need to click again to establish selection 2 to measure between them.

Better:

If I have something selected and then hit Inspect, that thing remains as selection 1. Then when I click anywhere else, that new thing I clicked becomes selection 2.

Every time I have something selected and decide I want to measure it, I select the inspection tool and then have to select something else, then re-select what I already had selected. I can't click on something that's already selected (to "confirm" that I want it to remain Selection 1) because that will simply de-select it. It's a little thing, but an easy way to reduce the number of clicks needed to perform a common task.

Notes:
I am on the latest version of F360 for MacOS.

[Phil.E]

Thanks for the observation. I'll ask if this can be improved.

In the meantime please use this workflow, it's only 3 clicks.

1. Click the inspect tool

2. Click input 1

3. Click input 2

It's the same number of clicks compared to your desired workflow, please correct me if I understand it incorrectly, that you want to: 

1. Click input 1

2. Click inspect tool

3. Click input 2

[wsmoy]

You are correct, it is the same number of clicks. However my desired workflow accounts for the situation where you've already selected some feature of interest, then decide you want to measure its distance to another feature. With the current implementation you need to actively deselect what's currently highlighted first.

The current implementation seems like a bug because if you have something highlighted before you hit inspect, you'll get measurements on the feature initially selected. It appears as selection #1. But as soon as you try to find its distance to another feature and click on that, it gets replaced as selection #1. Then you have to re-select your original selection as selection #2.

When you're clicking around in dense geometry this is annoying at best because you have to navigate around the model twice to find your targets. In that example described above, you can't even click on selection 1 initially to deselect and/or re-select it because the measure tool will click through it.

[Phil.E]

Thanks for the additional details.