Philip Vriend
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Excited to share that the requested functionality is now available in the public builds starting from V 28.3.0.
WIth the new Enclosed Mode, you can now select ONLY those objects which are completely INSIDE the marquee.
To activate the Enclosed Mode, just press 'E' ONCE after you start doing the marquee with the Normal Selection Tool or Group Selection tool.
Please note that,
1. The button E acts as a toggle, which means you just have to press E once, to get into or out of the enclosed mode.
2. You have to press E only after doing the marquee, pressing E in empty canvas will invoke the Free Transform tool or the tool the shortcut 'E' is assigned to.
We made a lot of effort in building this capability, so please try it out and let us what you all think!
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2 votesPhilip Vriend
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AutoCad has always done this in a very simple and useful way. You drag bottom right to top left and it selects any thing in it's path. You go the opposite direction and in only selects what is totally enclosed in the box. No additional modifier keys.
This would be extremely useful for anyone who wants to export line work from another program to Illustrator to make it look nice.
Often everything is only on one layer with no organization so it's not feasible to reorganize all the thousands of line segments just to make selection easier.
I've used Illustrator for many years as well as other programs. The lack of this feature has always been a major time suck every time I've wanted to export something to Illustrator to clean up the appearance.