Prevent locked objects from being selectable

[Professor Pickle]

When working with a busy model it is often difficult to select the right object/element. Tabbing through the available selection candidates sometimes doesn't work and it takes a bit of zooming in and out to finally get at the right thing.

Other times we have some objects whose shape and position has been set and locked and they won't change. Selecting those elements doesn't make sense most of the time.

It would be really helpful if there was a way to disable selection of locked items. This of course would be a toggle option of the selection process.

[DGSketcher]

Ok, you have your toggle, what happens if you want to unlock the Locked element?

[jl_lt]

i think this would be very useful. This happens to me a lot with section markers and overhead slabs. If im working on a specific floor i want to select that floor slab first, not the one above. Also, I dont want to be turning on and off stuff just so i dont select them or worse, creating new layer combos just for this. Maybe a selection hierarchy list could be useful

[Barry Kelly]

jl_lt wrote:
Maybe a selection hierarchy list could be useful

A pop-out list of selectable elements might be a nice idea.
But for now you can cycle through them with the TAB key.
The element you are about to select will pre-highlight with its info in the pop-out info box.

Barry.

[Minh Nguyen]

Hi All,

Thank you very much for creating this poll, and for those of you who voted to express their opinion.

I am happy to say this wish has been recorded in our WishList database already (please refer to it in the future as Wish #11816). Hopefully, our Product Management team will adopt this one in the future.

Thank you all once more, and I wish you a great day!

Best regards,
Minh

[Nader Belal]

Personally, I´m more in favour with Barry's Opinion.

To @Tomek Piatek,
Have you tried selection using schedules ?? Or Selection by filters ??

[Anonymous]

Barry’s idea of a pop out listing the elements has been in AutoCAD for quite a while and from my use I feel is slower than tabbing through elements like in Archicad
Scott

[jl_lt]

I think that what Mr. Tomek is talkin about is that sometimes you have something in your drawing or view that is already set and should not move again, but you still want to keep seeing it while working yet it actually interferes with your selections everytime you click on it (section markers with distance are particularly cumbersome on this). So i think what he is asking for isa n option to remove locked objects out of the selection cycle without turning them off. Personally i would find this quite useful

[Professor Pickle]

DGSketcher wrote:
Ok, you have your toggle, what happens if you want to unlock the Locked element?

You toggle the toggle so that you can select locked elements 😉

-t

[massimozeni]

Hi! two years are gone already, but this function is still not available...i'm working on a project where the terrain mesh is gigantic and locking the specified layer is not enough...every single mouse click will select the mesh and as you can image, is impossible to work on it!! please make it happen!!

[Lingwisyer]

For this reason I generally work with the terrain mesh layer off, or with it on it's own story.