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Selecting between overlapping lines in QCAD
Posted: Sat May 31, 2014 12:50 pm
by newinwit
What's the secret, please?
Re: Selecting between overlapping lines in QCAD
Posted: Sat May 31, 2014 4:24 pm
by Husky
newinwit wrote:What's the secret, please?
No secrets!
What do you need to do?
Re: Selecting between overlapping lines in QCAD
Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2014 2:41 pm
by newinwit
If I end up with two or more overlapping lines in the same layer, is there a way to cycle through the different lines in order to select the one I want?
Re: Selecting between overlapping lines in QCAD
Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2014 6:43 pm
by Husky
newinwit wrote:If I end up with two or more overlapping lines in the same layer, is there a way to cycle through the different lines in order to select the one I want?
Same Layer / same position / same length = no
Same Layer / same position / different length = mostly yes.
Use the "select rectangular area" tool (left to right) to catch the shorter line and with a left mouse click you can catch the longer line.
- Picked with the "select rectangular area" tool
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Re: Selecting between overlapping lines in QCAD
Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2014 6:57 pm
by J-J
try this:
http://www.ribbonsoft.com/rsforum/viewt ... dget#p6873
I keep it under may layer list, it comes in handy sometimes
Re: Selecting between overlapping lines in QCAD
Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2014 7:14 pm
by newinwit
Thanks for the replies. Maybe we can hope for this feature in future releases...? It would be nice if we could somehow "tab" through overlapping lines.
Re: Selecting between overlapping lines in QCAD
Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2014 9:06 am
by Clive
Hi newinwit
newinwit wrote:Thanks for the replies. Maybe we can hope for this feature in future releases...? It would be nice if we could somehow "tab" through overlapping lines.
I think we already have the means with the selection Filter (pro version) - maybe Andrew can tweak it and add something extra in the 'property' options to help filter the selections with overlapping lines.
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Can you expand slightly and possibly submit an example drawing to support your case?
Re: Selecting between overlapping lines in QCAD
Posted: Wed Jun 04, 2014 1:01 pm
by newinwit
Hi Clive,
I may be missing something here, but...
Let's say I have an 8" line on top of a 6" line--same layer, color, etc. Thankfully, QCAD does a nice job of letting me know there is more than one line there, but pointing and clicking anywhere on the lines selects the longer one. I understand I can use the rectangular selector to grab only the smaller line. But what if I have small, intricate entities somewhere on my 6" line? My selection rectangle must be very, very skinny in order to select only the line I want. Know what I mean?
Re: Selecting between overlapping lines in QCAD
Posted: Wed Jun 04, 2014 1:37 pm
by Clive
Okay, presuming you are using QCAD pro -
Heres a line 8" long with overlapping lines of 6",4" and 1/2".
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Using the selection Filter, I can set it up so that it will only select the 1/2 " lines, as you can see there are 3 selected.
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Re: Selecting between overlapping lines in QCAD
Posted: Wed Jun 04, 2014 3:01 pm
by newinwit
Great. Good solution. Thanks Clive!
Re: Selecting between overlapping lines in QCAD
Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2014 10:42 am
by Clive
Just been encountering similar situations where I need to select smaller lines overlapped by others and here's another (maybe better) solution for dealing with them.
In my drawing I need to select the red ringed line ... but how do I select only this line?
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Here's how, by pressing the 'Shift' key on the keyboard (keep held down) I can select any other lines I want to un-select them and then I am left with only the smaller line selected, now I can carry on working and do whatever I need to do to this smaller 'overlapped' line
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