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SELECT ONLY VISIBLE FACES with dragging box selection

SELECT ONLY VISIBLE FACES with dragging box selection

Again, the new Inventor 2024 feature FINISH is calling for this.

 

Every time the user uses a dragging selection box to select faces, all the faces (Visible, non-visible, interior faces, etc), will be selected).
Is missing an option to select only the camera's(view) visible faces.

 

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How do you expect the users to use these kinds of tools in an assembly (or parts with lots of small faces, like a plastic part)? selecting all the faces manually?! No way...

Without this option, or better-selecting options, tools like FINISH will be neglected and not used, because is not sustainable to use spend a day selecting faces one by one.

Selecting only the visible faces on camera will give the chance to users to turn the cube in all directions, (Front, Back, top, etc) and drag a selection box to select most of the visible faces. Of course, some will still be selected manually, but it will be a lot less, and this will save a huge amount of time.

This kind of selection will be useful also in a lot of cases, like selecting faces to CAM, selecting faces to copy, thicken, shell, etc etc.

 

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