Stop "face hosted families accidently getting hosted on an underlay

[Mark_Engwirda]

Example scenario

You want to add a hosted work plane-based object in your current view e.g a  sink family to a kitchen bench but it ends up hosted on your roof because you had a ceiling overlay turned on.
To me, this is quite an unexpected result.

Is there a current way to stop this from happening without having to turn the overlay off?

[ToanDN]

Disable overlay selection see if it helps.

[Mark_Engwirda]

Thanks ToanDN, that will stop it from happening but that the point of the post.
Indeed why should an object pick up an overlay at all rather than the object you were trying to host it on?
Sometimes, even a lot of times you want to keep that overlay on but it shouldn't get in your way, right?

[ToanDN]

No I don't mean turning off the underlay.  Disable Underlay selection is a button on the bottom right status bar, or in the Manage > Select menu.

[Mark_Engwirda]

Hi ToanDn, sorry for the very delayed response but turning off the "select underlay elements" makes no difference.

So I got to do a little bit of confirmation and yes if an underlay is visible a hosted object like a sink will select the face of the underlay (a roof in this case) instead of the target host which was an object like a kitchen bench.
So this situation is quite incorrect and unexpected.  I believe this is an error of thinking from the programmers,

a hosted object should not select the face of an underlay object but only the faces of objects within the current view.

Example of a hosted object selecting an underlay in lieu of the correct target.