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by bgoodr
Fri Oct 09, 2020 10:47 pm
Forum: Open discussion
Topic: Feature #4268 - Multi-Geometry Modal Selection and Deselection
Replies: 12
Views: 3469

Re: Multi-Geometry Modal Selection and Deselection

Kunda1 wrote: Fri Oct 09, 2020 6:57 pm bump, any progress on this ?
IMO, it is not implementable without volunteers. I vote to shelve the idea until that happens.
by bgoodr
Fri Feb 28, 2020 3:16 am
Forum: Open discussion
Topic: Quoting; was: FreeCAD Website Design
Replies: 24
Views: 4631

Re: Quoting; was: FreeCAD Website Design

chrisb wrote: Sat Feb 22, 2020 11:07 pm This request seems to be rather something for the phpbb developers than for the FreeCAD forum.
Got it. I somehow I thought that whomever deployed phpBB, for the FreeCAD forum, had customized the quoting behavior. But it sounds like that was not the case. Thus, I will withdraw this request.
by bgoodr
Sat Feb 22, 2020 4:46 pm
Forum: Open discussion
Topic: Quoting; was: FreeCAD Website Design
Replies: 24
Views: 4631

Re: Quoting; was: FreeCAD Website Design

There may be technical reasons to say "no" to this request: Will it set an expectation to be working when I select only part of a "list" item? :roll:
by bgoodr
Sat Feb 22, 2020 4:45 pm
Forum: Open discussion
Topic: Quoting; was: FreeCAD Website Design
Replies: 24
Views: 4631

Enhancement Request: Direct selection quoting without scrolling overhead

Why: Having to scroll down and hunt for a post that you were just reading, just to select text, after hitting reply is burdensome when you have to perform this operation frequently. Justified by others via: ... With that said, I agree with you that user B should not quote the entire post of A. He o...
by bgoodr
Sat Feb 22, 2020 2:59 pm
Forum: Open discussion
Topic: Feature #4268 - Multi-Geometry Modal Selection and Deselection
Replies: 12
Views: 3469

Re: Multi-Geometry Modal Selection and Deselection

vocx wrote: Mon Feb 17, 2020 5:40 am Please note that the correct page is Selection view, in lowercase.
Corrected in the OP. Good catch.
by bgoodr
Mon Feb 17, 2020 5:01 am
Forum: Open discussion
Topic: Feature #4268 - Multi-Geometry Modal Selection and Deselection
Replies: 12
Views: 3469

Re: Multi-Geometry Modal Selection and Deselection

Quoting from the original thread as it contains important considerations as to the difficulty of implementing this FR consistently in all of the requested views, notably ( red highlights are my own): ... Selection is a big complex operation in many type of software, and CAD is certainly one of them....
by bgoodr
Mon Feb 17, 2020 4:27 am
Forum: Help on using FreeCAD
Topic: How to select only vertices within a boxed region or ease selection of single vertices?
Replies: 56
Views: 11131

Re: How to select only vertices within a boxed region or ease selection of single vertices?

New Open Forum post has been created now verbatim from pre-FR Version 4 (I fully expect further revising of the FR to be done over there and not here). New Open Forum discussion is at https://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=43438 I notated the top of pre-FR to point to the new Open Disc...
by bgoodr
Mon Feb 17, 2020 4:19 am
Forum: Open discussion
Topic: Feature #4268 - Multi-Geometry Modal Selection and Deselection
Replies: 12
Views: 3469

Feature #4268 - Multi-Geometry Modal Selection and Deselection

Origination Tracker FR: https://tracker.freecadweb.org/view.php?id=4268 This continues from Version 4 of the so-called pre-FR . This will be updated in place. This is HUGE and thus is not implementable by any single person. It will have to be broken down into smaller achievable tasks, which can be ...
by bgoodr
Sun Feb 16, 2020 5:06 pm
Forum: Help on using FreeCAD
Topic: How to select only vertices within a boxed region or ease selection of single vertices?
Replies: 56
Views: 11131

Re: How to select only vertices within a boxed region or ease selection of single vertices?

... this discussion originated from a simple desire to be able to select vertices using Box Selection as input for a Measure tools: I want to use Measure Distance to select two points and get a Distance object shown for quick inspection. and I think that need still exists. By the way, that wiki pag...