Deselecting

[decard]

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)

[Puybaret]

It looks like it's time for you to read the shortcuts guide.

[decard]

sureeee, except ...

1. why would a simple basic thing like Deselect need a 'Shortcut'?

2. why wouldn't a simple basic thing like Deselect be about the 2nd thing you would put in a Users Guide in Edit Section (right after Select)?

3. why wouldn't Esc be a standard Unselect?

4. Having read the Shortcuts THREE times, there is simply NO mention of Unselect. the closest i coud get was some mention of toggles.

[Puybaret]

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.

[dorin]

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 [B-)]

[Puybaret]

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).

[decard]

Hi Dorin

thanks for this information

the obvious question remains - why is this simple fundamental info not in the User Guide and/or obvious easy place?

SHIFT for multiple select is a standard, as is CTRL to selct/deselect individual item

so why is SHIFT-Select not Select/Deselect all? and CTRIL+Select Deselect current one

SHIFT for both multiple select AND for Deselect is both inconsistent and confusing

but i thank you for this basic information

[decard]

hi.

i already knew that clicking outside the plan area would deselect. that was the only way i could find!!!

but do you know how how time that wastes to move across your whole plan to outside. Over and over and over!

for something as basic and as constant and as frequent as Deselecting!!

[Puybaret]

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.