BUG: Deselecting with ctrl+click doesn't work in Rhino 8

Hi all.

A couple of minutes in Rhino 8 and… :see_no_evil:

2 SubD open cylinders.
Window Sub-select like this:


… on Rhino 7 you can then CTRL-click to remove from selection all sub-elements of either of the 2 SubD tubes.
On Rhino 8 you can’t.
(DON’T give me alternatives for this extremely trivial example, please…)

For whatever reason this perfectly working workflow was removed… I don’t care.
Bring it back! :face_with_symbols_over_mouth:

Why should we lose controls with an upgrade? wtf…


On packed situations with many overlapping complex geometries, I can do a CTRL-SHIFT + window selection over an area of the screen, for example i get:
75 SubD edges, 54 SubD vertices, 24 SubD faces, 651 edges, 167 surfaces, 428 vertices, 3853 mesh edges, 1841 mesh vertices, 2013 mesh faces added to selection.
Then, with 2 simple CTRL-click (half second?) I can remove:

1 closed mesh removed from selection.
1 open polysurface removed from selection.

I am left with just the SubD elements, where i can then transform/delete/edit them easily.


On Rhino 8 I would need to first hide geometries or change the filter (but filter is not enough if same-type geometries) back and forth every time I do this.
No way! Easier to stay on 7. But this is the opposite of solving a problem.

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Hi @maje90 ,

I believe this removal of behavior is due to the change that allowed Ctrl+window drag to be used to remove specific sub-objects from a selection set in v8, this wasn’t possible in v7. I’ve filed https://mcneel.myjetbrains.com/youtrack/issue/RH-80274 to see if we can have both. Thanks for the report.

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Thanks for filing this! Just googled this issue myself because its SO FRUSTRATING!

This issue was resolved in service release 8.5 and above (current is 8.11) Make sure you aren’t on an older version if you are still not able to use Ctrl to deselect all sub-objects at once or Ctrl + window drag to deselect only some sub-objects.

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