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Deselecting
i cannot find a way to simply DESELECT an item ie so nothing is selected.
ESC certainly does not work: although that would be the obvious.
the problem of not being able to simply UNselect is that instead it selects something else, eg some 'Room', and then unintentional changes are made to whatever has been accidently selected
what i have had to do, when i remember, is scroll all the way of the design, and then click Enter
(btw, before you ask, Search in the Users Manual finds nothing)
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Re: Deselecting
As Dorin says in his signature: A computer program does what you tell it to do, not what you want it to do. Said another way, I think it’s time for you to use Sweet Home 3D as it is. Most of its behavior was inspired from other software and I won’t change it just because you expected something else. If the provided documents doesn’t work for you, feel free to write your guide. If its quality is good, I’ll be pleased to reference it in Documents page.
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Re: Deselecting
When You want to deselect an already selected item, SHIFT+click on this item. Shift are used for multiple selection and act also as toggle.
For this You have to put back a flower on my avatar
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Re: Deselecting
Note that selecting / unselecting the object(s) under the cursor is also proposed in the contextual menu of the plan and the 3D view where you'll right click. And if you want to unselect everything, you may simply click outside of any item in the plan.
When You want to deselect an already selected item, SHIFT+click on this item.
In the furniture list, unselecting one item is done with Ctrl + click (cmd + click under macOS).
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Emmanuel Puybaret, Sweet Home 3D creator
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Re: Deselecting
You could also lock the base plan so if you click on an item which is not part the of base plan (i.e. walls, rooms, polylines, texts, dimension lines and the furniture qualified as part of base plan), it will unselect the selected item(s).
By the way, I wonder what other drawing software you use to be so upset about the proposed ways to unselect in Sweet Home 3D, and why you need so much to unselect all. I never saw such a menu item in the software I used and Esc never unselected current selection in them too.
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