JST
Alibre Super User
When there is a selection window for things like "project to sketch" or "section view" in a model, etc, it is reasonably common to have several more items selected than fit on the visible area of the window.
It can be difficult to determine if you have selected everything that you think you have, particularly if the entities being selected are all the same, such as holes for "project to sketch". It ends up as a list of "edges" which all look the same in the list, and you do not see the whole list at one time anyway.
It might be good if there were a running count of the entities selected, so that when you select another, the count increases, verifying that you did actually get all selected. A box showing "XXX entities selected" is all it would take.
Yes, I know that the entities all have numbers, and that a sharp-eyed person might be able to see that the numbers changed (or did not). Yes, that would indicate the success or failure of each selection, if you keep a record in your head of all the entity numbers...... but it is not especially practical.
And, yes, the color changes to indicate that, but frankly it is a slight change of pastel colors. If the colors are changed for that case, they may be undesirable for another, and changing the selection colors on the fly only adds more work on top of what you really are doing.
If you are projecting the locations of 16 holes, (4 holes each of 4 items, for instance) then with a running total of what was selected, it is easy to see that yes, 16 holes were selected.
It can be difficult to determine if you have selected everything that you think you have, particularly if the entities being selected are all the same, such as holes for "project to sketch". It ends up as a list of "edges" which all look the same in the list, and you do not see the whole list at one time anyway.
It might be good if there were a running count of the entities selected, so that when you select another, the count increases, verifying that you did actually get all selected. A box showing "XXX entities selected" is all it would take.
Yes, I know that the entities all have numbers, and that a sharp-eyed person might be able to see that the numbers changed (or did not). Yes, that would indicate the success or failure of each selection, if you keep a record in your head of all the entity numbers...... but it is not especially practical.
And, yes, the color changes to indicate that, but frankly it is a slight change of pastel colors. If the colors are changed for that case, they may be undesirable for another, and changing the selection colors on the fly only adds more work on top of what you really are doing.
If you are projecting the locations of 16 holes, (4 holes each of 4 items, for instance) then with a running total of what was selected, it is easy to see that yes, 16 holes were selected.
