There's eye dropper and deep select, but not general selection, that I can see. Am I missing it somewhere?

VC2D/3D win

Thanks Jason, much obliged!

Errrrrm Tom......it is already along with Deselect ?

Errrrrm.....Paul, no, it's not. Or at least not on 2D/3D! Perhaps on Pro? :rolleyes:

It would be great to have the select tool on the right click contextual menu!

Steinberg's Cubase music software had tools available on the right button on the mouse (back in the days of the Atari Ste :cool:). This was a great feature as it really sped up productivity. Tim?

(sorry for the long reply- but this issue was really bugging me, and it still is. Perhaps I can find it as a key command?)

If you have a multibutton mouse, assign one of the keys to whatever keystroke you use for the select tool shortcut. This is an incredible productivity booster that I have been using since the days of Velum 2D (the mid 90's).

Select as a right click option feels kind of like the long way to get to the command. If Select is in a contextual menu item you have to right click (or control click) mouse down a list, and then click a second time. All that effort might be more than just flicking your mouse to the top left of the screen (muscle memory) and a single click to select the tool.

I guess part of the issue for you is that you are using a trackball, (logitech trackman) which makes it harder (my experience many years ago) to do large movements. If your trackman has a wheel button that can flick left and right you can assign the left, right, and center clicks different functions. Logitechs Mac drivers are renowned for their limited functionality and general crapyness so if you haven't already you might want to install [URL="http://www.usboverdrive.com/USBOverdrive/News.html"]USB Overdrive[/URL] which gives you much more control over the mouse.

Bellow is a copy of the shortcuts I have assigned. Most of them are arranged on the left hand side or bottom row of the keyboard so that I can keep my right hand on the mouse. Remember that you can use both upper and lower case, so I use the c key to show and flip the work plane, and the C key to hide that big ugly arrow.

Just for a mo .. back to the topic at hand

>> The selection is in the shortcuts --> tools --> Selection

Now this is another one of those things that have irked me for many years

There is of course a reason why nobody can find this setting until they're told about it ..

.. Selection should be under .. I don't know, let's see .. perhaps "Selection" ?

WHY IS IT UNDER "TOOLS" ?

It's not a bloody tool, it's for selecting stuRf !

Now, excuse me for ranting .. but I JUST DON'T SEE THE LOGIC

Rulez? There are NO rules!! This is Tim's software! :D:D

You'll also find loads of other stuff in shortcuts that have duplicate names, but are assigned to different functions completely unassociated with their names. I'm now wondering if ViewBall is actually in there, but is just assigned to something completely different.

fwiw, I've had a bad VC day- with the dreaded spinning beach ball of death appearing every time I either zoom in or select, or both. I almost punched my computer screen today with frustration! :mad:

Vectorworks Designer, with it's Parasolid kernel, is beginning to look very tempting these days! :p