Curves from nested blocks are not highlighted correct when selected

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Dear all,

I may have found a bug where curves are not highlighted correctly when they are located in nested blocks and used for a loft, sweep or an extrusion There seams to be several occasions that happen when you select the curves:
Sometimes the curves are not highlighted when you select them – zooming out will highlight the entire block

  • Sometimes the curves are not highlighted when you select them – zooming out will highlight the entire block
  • Sometimes the curves are not highlighted when you select them – zooming out will highlight the curve correctly
  • Sometimes the entire block is highlighted when you select the curve
  • Curves in the next block that you want to select are already highlighted

I don’t really see a pattern when or why the curves are not highlighted correctly, except that the curves are located in nested blocks. I have uploaded a test file:

Testfile.3dm (717.2 KB)

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Hi Peter -

I’ve tried a few things with your file but am not seeing the behavior that you are describing.
Please run the Rhino SystemInfo command and copy-paste the result here.
-wim

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Rhino 7 SR12 2021-11-9 (Rhino 7, 7.12.21313.06341, Git hash:master @ 5590153808223b57a9f41516a969fd949aa81bff)
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Hi Peter - highlighting in nested blocks is indeed not reliable - it is a bug, or a limitation, I guess, that is known and as far as I know not currently fixable. But, here, if I can select an edge in your blocks, they do seem to highlight. I can make a nested block here where the highlight is definitely incorrect though.

-Pascal

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Thank you for your reply. I have tried the testfile one more time this morning. Lofting the green curves will highlight the entire block, all the other curves seam to work fine (In my case).
This year I have been working on a project where I used this concept quite often. Therefore, I recognized this issue in the first place. I guess there is no way to change it for now, but it´s not as bad anyway.

Best Peter

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