How to stop mesh being selected?

Hi,
V5
I have a line drawn, it is on Cplane, mesh with its texture sits ‘astride’ Cplane. I zoom in enough to avoid selecting a mesh polygon but still the mesh gets selected, the only way to select the line is turn mesh layer off.
I turn off osnaps. still the mesh is getting selected.

I even struggle if line is on mesh but somewhere other than in middle of it.

What should I be doing ?

Cheers

Steve

Turn on the SelectionFilter and temporarily uncheck meshes…

Ok, done that, they still select.

Steve

Not possible - if meshes are unchecked in the Selection Filter, you cannot select them.

its happening though, is it that its selecting the jpg texture I am seeing thousands of yellow ‘wires’ though.

sussed it ,the filter panel must remain visible, I had ok’d it so I thought by then closing it top right corner.
Could we not have meshes in the osnaps area and to the right of, bags of grey space unused there.

Steve

However a further problem, select line with meshes unticked, select show points and line ceases to be selected, no points show.

it disallows show control points for the selected line.

draw another line elsewhere, points show, copy paste the offender to a new file, they show.
delete the offender, draw new line same locations, turn on control points, line deselects and no points occur.
sussed it, it was showing with BringToFront over the mesh, when turning on show points ‘bringToFront’ is nuked as a command.
select it with its points, run BringToFront, it doesnt show.

test. draw line away from mesh, run BringToFront. turn on showpoints, they appear, drag one end over the mesh, point vanishes !

Points cannot show when using bringToFront for line and point is moved over a mesh.

Steve

I would simply put the mesh model into a separate layer and lock it. This is better than locking the mesh objects itself, because you can easily hide and unhide the layer.

As for hiding the selection highlight, there is a “ToggleSelectionHighlight” command if you use the following script:
ToggleSelectionHighlight.rvb (1.6 KB)

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