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    • EscapeArtistE Offline
      EscapeArtist
      last edited by Gábor

      I could swear I saw this or had a plugin that "grew" a selection, sort of like in Blender or 3DS. Pressing "+" would increase the selected area by connected surfaces.

      Is there a function or plugin that will do this? I installed Win 7 and SU, cleaned out my plugins and can't seem to find that function anywhere - though I thought I had it.

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      • mitcorbM Offline
        mitcorb
        last edited by

        Check ThomThom's Selection Toys, maybe or Fredo's Hoverselect, maybe? I do not recall any other.

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        • thomthomT Offline
          thomthom
          last edited by

          Selection Toys doesn't do that. But I have it on my todo list.

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          • charly2008C Offline
            charly2008
            last edited by

            Hi Escapeartist,

            do you mean grow.rb? Have a look here:

            http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=20195&st=0&sk=t&sd=a&hilit=grow

            Karlheinz

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            • EscapeArtistE Offline
              EscapeArtist
              last edited by

              @charly2008 said:

              Hi Escapeartist,

              do you mean grow.rb? Have a look here:

              http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=20195&st=0&sk=t&sd=a&hilit=grow

              Karlheinz

              No, that's more like a scaled array but thanks for referencing that. I'm looking for strictly a selection tool that will "grow" the selection; i.e. if you select one face on a cube and press a key it will select the connected 4 sides + the one you selected first, press the key again and all 6 sides are selected.

              I thought there was already something like that available, I must be getting old.

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              • Chris FullmerC Offline
                Chris Fullmer
                last edited by

                Sketchup has something like that built in. Perhaps you had assigned it a shortcut key?

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                • mitcorbM Offline
                  mitcorb
                  last edited by

                  It really would be a nice option for Hoverselect, but I think he is busy elsewhere.

                  And Chris, perhaps you could elaborate on your reply or point me to what you mean?

                  I take the slow, deliberate approach in my aimless wandering.

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                  • majidM Offline
                    majid
                    last edited by

                    as I repeatedly use wings3d, and it has a similar option, I had assigned "+" key for that, in sketch up to "select connected faces" that is a built-in right-click menu option

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                    • EscapeArtistE Offline
                      EscapeArtist
                      last edited by

                      @majid said:

                      in sketch up to "select connected faces" that is a built-in right-click menu option

                      Oh, man. I couldn't see the forest for the trees. There is such thing as too many plugins. Thanks Majid, I'd used a hotkey so long I forgot completely where/what it was in the menus after re-installation.

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