Hi All, Does anyone know of a way to make the group ui elements on the grasshopper canvas (edited) not be included in selection crossing windows? I rely on groups for clean scripting arrangement, but get frustrated when I need to select multiple components in the middle of a large group. Any help …

Have you thought of using Attribute User Text to link / group your content?

Not sure if this will get the function I’d like. Hoping for a user experience similar to Rhino’s filter Geometry, where (for instance) points can be filtered out from selection. The ability to not have the UI of groups to be affected, to be able to toggle interaction on and off would be a massive h…

Hi Brett - [image] Brett Abroe: Does anyone know of a way to make the group ui elements not be included in selection crossing windows? There is no way of doing that. That issue is on the list as RH-89216 G2: Window-Select in Group -wim

Hi Wim, Looking at the YT issue, if we’re looking for where to implement here are some suggestions: I know it would probably irk some people, but the scroll wheel menu already establishes that different quadrants can have different number of functions. Moving the cluster function could allow for …

Hi @Brett_Abroe1 One can globally select groups and lock them and unlock them without effecting other non grouped items that are locked, unfortunately if you have a group that is locked it will be then unlocked. So it “kind of works” as a global filter. In these two small scripts, I put one on lef…

Hi Roland - [image] 3dsynergy: arrGroups = Rhino.GroupNames This thread is about groups of components on the Grasshopper canvas. [image] -wim

Sorry I was completely blind and somehow thought you were talking about Groups in the Rhino viewport.

[image] Martin Siegrist: Sorry I was completely blind and somehow thought you were talking about Groups in the Rhino viewport. Me too, wow completely missed that it was for GH. Don’t recall this being in the Gh category, but I learned something new anyway and maybe some users might still find…

Make groups un-selectable

Grasshopper

Brett_Abroe1 (Brett Abroe) October 7, 2025, 1:18am 10

Sorry all! My bad, a bit ambiguous looking back at the phrasing, but yes, this is purely about grasshopper group UI elements, and not having those selectable if possible

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Make groups un-selectable

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