Why does Rhino display the backside of a mesh when selected?

Im working with 3D scanned data, so the mesh comes in pretty dense. When im trying to inspect a part of the model its really annoying and hard to read when the whole mesh is highlighted while select.


As seen in the above picture when a mesh is selected it shows and highlights even the backside of the mesh making it a mess to look at. Is there a way to turn this off.

Like in Maya when you select an object in maya it doesnt display any any edges, verts, or faces not directly facing the camera.

Hi Tommy one way out is to set your display mode to use shade-highlighting fpr meshes -

I find this not 100% fix but better.

You can also use this script to un-highlight the selected objects completely:

Unhighlight.py (363 Bytes)

To use the Python script use RunPythonScript, or a macro:

_-RunPythonScript "Full path to py file inside double-quotes"

(For this case, an alias or button is by far the best way to go.)

-Pascal