request: item selection in viewport

[smeansuoa]

Hiya,

Selecting things in the view window (i.e., scaffold creator, point cloud partitioner) is cumbersome with an infinitely-long box. Is there any alternative to this mechanism?

• Infinite box often selects undesired items, usually below an occluding surface; workaround is 'riding' a surface and selecting individual points with a tiny selection square (with an infinite box behind it). For a complex surface this becomes quite difficult.
• is there a way now or potentially to select an individual item by cursor hover and click without the infinite box?
• Also, can we remove a selection from a group of selected items? After all that work of riding a surface say, and then the box captures unwanted items...far preferable to simply remove one item instead of starting all over.

thanks!

[hsorby]

I’m not 100% clear on the ask here, could you add some pictures to help me understand?

[smeansuoa]

here's an example image --