Preselection Highlighting and Query Select

[NEALROSENBLUM]

All,

1. Is there an easy or built-inway to toggle Preselection Highlighting ON and OFF? Or do I just need to create a mapkey? I tried to create one mapkey for toggling ON/OFF but this did not work. I probably need to create one mapkey to toggle ON and another mapkey to toggle OFF.
2. How do I query select using Preselection Highlighting? I repeatedly press the RMB and when I accept with the MMB, the entity never gets properly selected.
3. The Query Select functionality sometimes turns itself off. In other words, when I want to Query Select, I click the RMB and select an itemwith the LMB. I then repeatedly click the RMB until the item I want has been highlighted and I accept with the MMB. My problem is that the initial RMB click that takes me into Query Select mode doesn't always take me there. I end up having to click and hold the RMB, use the pulldown menu, and manually select Query Select.

Sincerely,
Neal Rosenblum
Geometrix Engineering, Inc.
201 N. 13th Avenue
Hollywood, FL 33019
Ph: 954-920-2049
Fax: 954-920-9574
Cell: 954-649-9399
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[ptc-1641498]

Hi,



Add this to your toolbar, black arrow on grid. It will allow you to turn it
on and off. Its under the list of commands on edit.



Best regards

Stephen









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[dgschaefer]

The mapkey below will toggle the highlighting. The trick with these
toggle mapkeys is finding the 1 or 0 that tells Pro|E 'on' or 'off'.
Record the mapkey both ways, as on and off and compare them in a text
editor. Somewhere there will be a single character difference - one
will have a 1, the other a 0. Delete the 1 or 0 and it becomes a
toggle.

Here's the mapkey:

mapkey vph @MAPKEY_LABELPrehighlighting;\
mapkey(continued) ~ Select `main_dlg_cur` `MenuBar1`1 `Edit`;\
mapkey(continued) ~ Select `main_dlg_cur` `Edit.cbSelect`;~ Close
`main_dlg_cur` `MenuBar1`;\
mapkey(continued) ~ Close `main_dlg_cur` `Edit.cbSelect`;\
mapkey(continued) ~ Activate `main_dlg_cur` `psh_sel_filter`;\
mapkey(continued) ~ Activate `selprefs` `PrehButton` ;~ Activate
`selprefs` `Ok`;

I don't remember, but I think the 1 or 0 was at the end of the second to
last line.

Doug Schaefer

[scott.carbone]

Stephen,
What version are you using?
In my WF2 release, I can find neither the "Arrow on grid" icon or the
one immediately to the left of it. What is that one for?


To Neal's question -
For me, the MMB appears to cancels the command. I can only select with
the LMB after querying with the RMB. After MMB, my RMB will only work
again if I move the mouse and thereby 'force' another pre-selection to
occur first.

Regards,
Scott

[MikeFoster]

Hi Neal,

Here is a mapkey that toggles:

mapkey nh ~ Select `main_dlg_cur` `MenuBar1`1 `Edit`;\
mapkey(continued) ~ Close `main_dlg_cur` `MenuBar1`;~ Select
`main_dlg_cur` `Edit.cbSelect`;\
mapkey(continued) ~ Close `main_dlg_cur` `Edit.cbSelect`;\
mapkey(continued) ~ Activate `main_dlg_cur` `psh_sel_filter`;\
mapkey(continued) ~ Activate `selprefs` `PrehButton` ;~ Activate
`selprefs` `Ok`;


The way to make a non-toggle mapkey toggle is to manually edit it to
remove the 1 or the 0 value that represents the box being checked or
not.
Mike Foster
ATK Space

[dgschaefer]

Missed your other questions. Query select is different in WF. You
hover to pre-select, RMB to query through and then LMB to select. As
someone else pointed out, MMB cancels. You have to be careful not to
move your mouse while toggling through with the RMB. Any mouse movement
pre-selects again and starts you over. That's a bit maddening, but if
you have to go more than a few RMB clicks, it's better to use the 'pick
from list' command in the RMB menu.

If you fully understand the 'smart filter', it'll help too. The smart
filter first highlights features only. Once you select a feature, it
then highlights geometry of that feature. So, if you want a particular
edge or feature surface, first find and pick the parent feature of the
object, then the object entities will highlight.

I hope that helps.

Doug Schaefer

[ptc-2860737]

If you just plain don't like it, like myself, you can also use the
config option 'prehighlight no' which will turn it off when Pro/E starts
up. You can still turn it on though if you want it (for some unknown
reason ;).

Cheers
Doug

[A.DelNegro]

Sounds like you don't have a handle on how the new selection method
works in WF. I had sent a link to a nice tutorial on the PTC site that
had a good explanation of the section tool and the logic behind it.



Unfortunately, I've lost that link. Does anyone have it saved from when
I sent it?



Tony

[ptc-1641498]

Hi,



Wildfire v3



Best regards

Stephen







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[michaelfr]

you can also use: edit > select > preferences and then check/uncheck
highlighting


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All,
1. Is there an easy or built-in way to toggle Preselection
Highlighting ON and OFF? Or do I just need to create a mapkey? I tried
to create one mapkey for toggling ON/OFF but this did not work. I
probably need to create one mapkey to toggle ON and another mapkey to
toggle OFF.
2. How do I query select using Preselection Highlighting? I
repeatedly press the RMB and when I accept with the MMB, the entity never
gets properly selected.
3. The Query Select functionality sometimes turns itself off. In
other words, when I want to Query Select, I click the RMB and select an
item with the LMB. I then repeatedly click the RMB until the item I want
has been highlighted and I accept with the MMB. My problem is that the
initial RMB click that takes me into Query Select mode doesn't always take
me there. I end up having to click and hold the RMB, use the pulldown
menu, and manually select Query Select.
Sincerely,
Neal Rosenblum
Geometrix Engineering, Inc.
201 N. 13th Avenue
Hollywood, FL 33019

[ptc-1641498]

One on the left of it is for colours and appearance.



Best regards

Stephen





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[A.DelNegro]

Thanx Lyle, Here's the link to the video tutorial on selection. It
clears up a lot of confusion.



Tony

[MGortner]

Speaking of highlighting, is there a way to mouse-over an item in the
model tree and see it highlighted in the main window?



I'd like to do this when I don't feel like clicking RMB through 10
planes and I want to "preview" my model tree selection before I'm forced
to click on it (since a wrong click will force into many extra mouse
clicks).


Thanks,
Matt Gortner

[DiVenti]

Hope this is what you mean.






"Matthew R. Gortner" <->
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Speaking of highlighting, is there a way to mouse-over an item in the
model tree and see it highlighted in the main window?

I?d like to do this when I don?t feel like clicking RMB through 10 planes
and I want to ?preview? my model tree selection before I?m forced to click
on it (since a wrong click will force into many extra mouse clicks).

Thanks,
Matt Gortner

[MGortner]

Yes, that's it. It's something I never needed until recently.



Thanks,
Matt

[PeterBrown]

Is there a config to enable this by default?

Regards

LUCIAN BIBIRUS wrote:
Hope this is what you mean.





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Speaking of highlighting, is there a way to mouse-over an item in the model tree and see it highlighted in the main window?

I’d like to do this when I don’t feel like clicking RMB through 10 planes and I want to “preview” my model tree selection before I’m forced to click on it (since a wrong click will force into many extra mouse clicks).

Thanks,
Matt Gortner

[DiVenti]

Yes, set this config option to yes.

prehighlight_tree

Hope it helps.
Lucian





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