5.830 - More precise selections

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Get more control over material settings and selections with updates to Visualization and the Selection tool.

  • New: Now you can customize refractive materials in Visualization using Transmission and IOR (Index of Refraction) sliders to control transparency and how light bends through surfaces.
    Transmission:
    5.830-visualization-transmission
    IOR:
    5.830-visualization-ior
  • Improved: The Selection tool now includes new options for working more efficiently in complex designs:

    • Select from overlapping items – Easily choose the exact sketch, edge, or face from a pop-up list when multiple elements overlap.
      5.820-Select from overlapping items

    • Select Through mode – Access internal geometry without hiding or adjusting surrounding parts, using a keyboard shortcut or context menu for faster, more precise edits.
      5.820-Select Through mode

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Grid is fixed. Thank you!

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Thanks, finally I can fix the broken reflections and refractions of glass!

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These are great updates and will make the workflow of using Shapr3D mush easier. One addition to the list selection process could be to be able to right mouse button click on screen thru the edges, surfaces or bodies and also have the option of a list. Good job Shapr3D team looking forward to many more improvements.

Thank you

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Is select trough already on iPad? Because I can’t find a way to activate it.

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Go to the App Store and to the Account Popup and refresh via Pull Down. I just did that and Shapr showed up in the update app list.

Doing these selection on the iPad I’m bit confused, did it once and I don’t know how to reproduce what I did. A demo on the iPad would be nice. On the desktop it was more straight forward.

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An idea: When the pop-up window opens in the select trough option, by hovering the mouse / pencil over the label of an object, it would get highlighted in the workspace. This would solve the issue of not knowing what exactly you are selecting, and speed up the workflow

@SCALEMODEL You just tap on a line / edge hidden behind a face (the „show hidden edges“ feature helps a lot) and then get a pop-up window to select whatever you want to select.

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Ok thank you, that worked!

So like you mentioned Select Through is this a desktop only thing?

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No, this is the new feature as they described above, the one which I showed in the video.

I just thought it was :slight_smile:

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This is a nice update :+1:

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I agree it would make it so much easier to verify which edge, surface or body was being picked if it would highlight the object hovering over in the list it is too hard to see as just a black highlight. but it is a really good update.

Thanks