Selection with display rules

Hi

I've tested out the new display rules in Aecosim connect and it's a great way to filter out walls, slabs and so on when I try to focus on other stuff. But when I select elements, even though they are not seen, they get selected. Is this really the expected behavior? Seems it's very easy to make mistakes. 

Here I've created a rule to only display walls:

But even though I can only see about 5 selected elements, there are 210 other hidden elements. So when I chose no rule I can see al this, that I didn't see at the time of selection, got selected with my fence. 

Regards, 
Robert

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  • Hi Robert,

    Yes I see what you mean. To confirm I created this display rule that hides everything then shows only walls.

    Having applied this rule, selection of any kind includes the hidden elements. I guess this is because a display rule like this is only hiding the elements from the current view, it is not turning off their display in the same way as level off.

    While I can see why you could expect only the displayed elements to be selected this feature is not designed to apply selections. I can also see the possibilities for inadvertent selection of hidden elements.

    We would advise using the SelectBy tool to create filtered selection sets.

    Please file a service request if you would like to ask for the ability to control selection to be added to Display Rules.

    Marc

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