[Request] Select Object > Select All Geometry on Same Layer

[JClements]

I searched the forum and I don't believe a script has been written to do the following.

Select a surface or edge > Right-click > Context Menu > and then Select All Other Geometry On the SAME LAYER (in the current context).

[TIG]

You don't need a new tool - it's already built-in to SUp. Select an object on the layer and get right-click context-menu, a few items (4?) down from the top is 'Select', its pop-out sub-menu includes 'All on same Layer', as well as 'All with same Material', bounding edges, all connected etc...

[JClements]

Duh, I looked and looked ... too many hours and too many listings in my context menu.

I can see part of the problem (besides having a cloudy head), it was a huge CAD file I imported (10 meg+). Everything slowed terribly and the context menu most often had the select menu greyed-out.

I am glad you set me straight though Thanks, TIG

[Didier Bur]

Hi,
If your context menu is HUGE, maybe the next release of my Layer Manager will better suit your need: click on an object to select all objects of its layer (iterative,cumulative), click on a selected object to deselect the entire layer, and so on.
Here is the "layers tools" toolbar, tool I'm talking about is #7 from left on:
Regards,

[JClements]

Hi Didier:

Only thing is I wanted to compare the selected geometry relative to the rest of the model (or context); therefore, the geometry on the other layers must be visible. I was looking for a way to highlight the edges selected geometry without the bounding box being displayed.

I know you could probably do tricks with toggling edge display defaults and layer display modes, but I'm guessing that would tax things significantly if a large selection was involved and be very slow.

[thomthom]

@tig said:

You don't need a new tool - it's already built-in to SUp. Select an object on the layer and get right-click context-menu, a few items (4?) down from the top is 'Select', its pop-out sub-menu includes 'All on same Layer', as well as 'All with same Material', bounding edges, all connected etc...

It only seem to work on Faces/Edges. Groups/Components isn't selected.

[JClements]

Thom:

I think that is a major gothcha in SU when selecting geometry ... you can only do it for one context (no subgroups or subcomponents) not the entire model.

I suppose if Outliner (or something akin to it) could deal with geometry of non-groups and non-components and then had a way to filter for these (I think this function has been submitted for SU8), then we'd be home free.

[thomthom]

With the SU API it's possible to select items inside groups/components. It's just the SU UI that doesn't do it.