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Select Other not working

mauricio_bremermauricio_bremer Member Posts: 6
edited March 2021 in Using Onshape
So I discovered there's a way to select the hidden faces or edges with the "Select Other" menu.

It's supposed to be triggered by the " º " key on the Spanish keyboard but it's not working for me. I hover over the hidden faces (part is translucent) and click the º button and then clicking one of the faces but it selects the face in front of the hidden ones. I've tried clicking the º  button before and after clicking the hidden faces without any luck of getting the "select other" menu.

Any ideas of what could be going wrong? Is there any way to trigger this menu with other keys? 

Comments

  • NeilCookeNeilCooke Moderator, Onshape Employees Posts: 5,675
    There are some issues around international keyboards not sending the code we are looking for. Try randomly pressing other keys to locate the right one (which may end up being in an inconvenient place). 
    Senior Director, Technical Services, EMEAI
  • mauricio_bremermauricio_bremer Member Posts: 6
    NeilCooke said:
    There are some issues around international keyboards not sending the code we are looking for. Try randomly pressing other keys to locate the right one (which may end up being in an inconvenient place). 
    Thanks for the reply Neil, I'll give it a try.
  • robert_stilesrobert_stiles Member Posts: 116 PRO

    I thought I was going mad.

    I was sure the @ key (on uk keyboards) activated the "select other" menu, but then it stopped working. I searched a few forum posts, thinking others must have this same problem.

    Its been a few weeks of not being sure I was right… because I don't use the "select other" menu so much.

    but then I remembered I moved to firefox not so long ago, (because somewhere on these forums I swear @NeilCooke said it has a much larger memory cache, and we did get instant performance improvement on big parts studios when we moved - although now I can't find that forum discussion)

    Anyway, I can confirm the @ key does not access the "select other" menu on fire fox. I think this is a fire fox issue, not an onshape issue, and I put it here for any one else struggling to access this menu through hot keys, who might be using firefox.

  • NeilCookeNeilCooke Moderator, Onshape Employees Posts: 5,675

    Should be the key above tab so on uk keyboard that would be ‘

    Senior Director, Technical Services, EMEAI
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