Edge vs.Centre-point selection mildly annoying?

owen_sparks

Hi folks.

I find myself slightly frustrated with the default behavior when selecting Edges vs.Centre-points, and wanted to ask how others felt...

(The usual caveat that OS are doing a great job and I'm not knocking anyone's work just putting my opinion in the mix.)

A recent-ish improvement allowed us to select a centre-point of an edge.  This is useful (thanks) but most often I want to select the edge not the centre-point.  My natural instinct when selecting a line/edge is to click in the middle of it, thus selecting the centre-point not the whole edge.  This is exaggerated for small edges when zoomed out as the centre-point seems to be what's picked up first.

I find my self having to force brain to:-
(a) Zoom in
(b) Aim off centre
(c) Select
(d) Zoom out

this is tedious.

I'd prefer the default to be click anywhere along edge to select it, or hover "somewhere near the middle" for half a second to wake up the centre-point.

What do you guys think?  Are you frustrated like me, or does it come naturally and you've never had to give it a thought?

Cheers,
Owen S.

PS sorry if your regional spelling is center not centre.

lutz_2

I somehow got used to this zoom in, select, zoom out sequence :-) But yes, it is quite annoying. Especially if you have to select a lot of filleted corners with small radii on a large sketch... 

srbh

My feelings also. I've got used to it most of the time, but I keep forgetting. I seem to use it mainly in the derive feature and I've not yet needed to derive the centre point of a line.

mahir

I'm in agreement. There should definitely be a hover pause required to "wake up" the midpoint.

3dcad

+1
Pause or first click select line and wake up midpoint only on selected line second click on midpoint -> switch line selection to midpoint.

Not a high priority problem for me though.

brucebartlett

I don't really like the centre point coming up, although it is great when you do want to select a centre point. I regularly want to measure thickness of plates and sheets and do this by edge length and my default instinct is to click it on or near the centre of an edge only to bring up the centre point. I think I have kinda got used to the way it is now but a slight pause then wake up mid point sound like a better option. 

garnet_willis

I have the same issue I would much rather select the edges than the centre points (although'd still like to be able to select centre points as a second option.) I am in the process of selecting edges from imported geometry, making them in to OS Sketches, and have to zoom way in so the centre points don't jump up and get selected. Centre points seem to say "select me" with priority over edges... all the zooming in and out and panning is frustratingly slow. 

owen_sparks

@garnet_willis

If you have a spare minute or two would you mind voting on the improvement request here:-

https://forum.onshape.com/discussion/5381/wake-up-centre-points-on-edges

Cheers,
Owen S