Hi All
Just learned a cool trick from SESI to solve a problem that has always bugged me.
If you have a group sop that has an existing selection and want to edit interactively, I have always struggled with this as pressing enter in the viewport, editing my selection and then pressing enter again will create another groupsop!?!?! Now you have to copy the selection into the old sop. Rubbish and inefficient!!
The solution is as follows:
select the group sop and press enter in the viewport, now press ` (the tilda key to the left of the number 1), your group sop will disconect and show an error but once you reselect and press enter again in the viewport, your selection will update the original sop!
Is that common knowledge? If not I hope it is useful!
Intereractive reselection for a Group Sop - cool trick!
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Is that common knowledge? If not I hope it is useful!
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it should be, but it never hurts to spread the knowledge
it works for any SOP which accepts selection pattern from viewport not only Group SOP and it's very useful indeed
the tool is located in Select menu/Reselect For Current Tool or ` as a shortcut
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do you have a US keyboard? please assign your custom shortcut if not.
also make sure you're in the active tool mode and not in selection mode or anything. if you go to selection mode or switch to any other mode while doing the reselection it wont work.
this can be accessed via menu left click on the selection tool and select “reselect for current tool”
also make sure you're in the active tool mode and not in selection mode or anything. if you go to selection mode or switch to any other mode while doing the reselection it wont work.
this can be accessed via menu left click on the selection tool and select “reselect for current tool”
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A feature that long escaped my attention is the ability to restrict a selection to only front-facing polygons.
The “Area Select Visible Geometry Only” option above it also gives you the ability to select only top level polygons (and points, vertices, edges, etc). It is often more useful than Select Front-Facing Polygons, but you need GL3 in order to use it.
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hi.
i am using a laptop.
I'm kinda lost in “hotkey manager” could tell me how to setup properly
thanks
right click on the selection tool. on the very bottom there will be “Reselect for current Tool”
you can then hold ctrl -alt - shift while you click on this entry. The Hotkey Manager will open and there you can change it to your needs.
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