Prevent selecting/picking surfaces (while cross selecting)?

[007]

Hi to all,

I’m wondering how to prevent selecting surfaces in Shaded mode? I like to cross select control point of particular surface but when I start with window selection and pick first point of window I pick the unwanted surface (if picked point lie on area of the surface).

I know that I can switch to Wireframe mode and do the selection but the procedure is to long and also tricky.

[Alireza (Bahrami Alireza)]

Hi
You can use selection filter by click (f5) or another way, hold ctrl+shift and select any vertex or edge you want.

[Helvetosaur]

Hold down the Alt key when window selecting, it will prevent the mouse click placing the first corner of the the window from picking objects.

[007]

Yes, ALT key when window selecting! That’s what I wanted:).

Thank you Halvetosaur

[Rhino_Bulgaria (Bobi)]

This also has the potential to help, if it ever gets implemented in Rhino:

Wish: Keys toolbar

I would like to be able to click icons that will act as if I have pressed an actual keyboard key. Here is an example menu where: a) clicking on the left side Alt (or another key on the left) will act as a single press and hold of the keyboard’s Alt key and will stay active until I press and then release the left mouse button. That could be very handy for those who use a 3d mouse and want to safely select objects or control points with a rectangular region while not leaving the 3d mouse with the…