Problem: Selected objects in shaded Viewports

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Hi guys,

finally having had to upgrade to Rhino 6.29 because my trustworthy Rhino 4 doesn’t work on my new hardware anymore, I ran into two problems:

  1. I’m toggling between wireframe display and shaded viewport.
    In Rhino 4, a selected object hides its yellow highlight lines in a shaded viewport, but in Rhino 6 I haven’t found a way to get rid of them (slightly annoyed here).

Is there a way to hide the selection in a shaded viewport?

  1. In a shaded viewport, if I choose “Selected = true”, the selected part only stays visible if it is not a block. If it’s a block, it is hidden (as the rest of the model).

Any idea?

Thanks in advance!
Andreas

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I don’t remember that… been a long time since I used V4 though. How do you know the object is selected?

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I select it in wireframe view, and then toggle to shaded.

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Thank you very much!

Unfortunately this didn’t solve my problem - but setting
Rhino.Options.OpenGL.WireThicknessScale to 0.5 helped for the moment.

So, the only remaining problem is a selected block disappearing in a shaded viewport.

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Hi Andreas -

Where are you setting “Selected = true”? I don’t understand what you are asking about here.
-wim

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Hi Wim,

steps to re-create this behaviour:

  1. I have a complex model that includes about 90 blocks, all linked from externel (Rhino-) Files
  2. I edit the model in wireframe viewport
  3. I select a block
  4. _Shade
  5. Command line: Choose Shade settings (Selected = No DisplayMode = Rendered)
  6. Click on “Selected = No”
  7. New command line: Choose Shade settings (Selected = Yes DisplayMode = Rendered)

–> All non-selected parts disappear, including the selected one

If I select a non-block part in step 3, anything works as expected: All none-selected parts disappear and only the selected part remains visible.

Thx for your input!
Andreas

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does the isolate command do what you are expecting?

pick the object you want to work on, run isolate and continue.

to bring them all back, run the show command. I have these commands aliased to a hotkey.

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Hi Andreas - that Selected=Yes/No option does seems a little odd. I’ll investigate.
RH-60778 Shade: dash version ‘Selected’ option
@theoutside - the option is on the dash version of Shade … “_-Shade”

-Pascal

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_Shade is like a Rhino 1.0 command that is still in there - from the days when shading an entire viewport continuously might have burned out your graphics card… :roll_eyes:

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Hi Mitch - I use Shade a zillion times a day, as I work in wireframe almost always. But I have never used the dash version and its options…

-Pascal