Region Selector Plugin

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#1

I’ve been needing to select parts within 3d regions, but I haven’t found any existing tools to do so. Most of the time such a tool would make things a ton easier: I’m working in a cluttered space with ungrouped models and need to select in a small area, so the screen-space selector won’t cut it.

Step 1: Make a part to use as your region

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Step 2: Press “Select Inside” or “Select Touched”

Select Inside:

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Select Touched:

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Bonus features:

  • Supports rotated regions
  • Supports selecting with multiple regions at once
  • When selecting from multiple regions is taking too long, it will wait to make sure you can cancel it
  • If you press either Select button while it is still working, it will cancel existing work.

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Thanks to @EgoMoose for the RotatedRegion3 module that this uses. :smile:

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#2

Nice plugin! Interesting enough I coded a very similar tool that does this last week because I needed to group specific parts in different blocks of my city. Never thought to make it a plugin though :stuck_out_tongue:

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#3

Thanks for the plugin! It makes it really easy to set up rigs for the models my team makes, since they tend to consist of several meshes per limb.

#4

If anybody uses Building Tools by F3X, it’s worth noting that you can also select parts inside the currently selected parts by pressing Shift K :yum: This should work with any shape :package:

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