Objects outside the selection window are added to the selection

[Intuos5]

Hi,

I seem to have run into an issue where Affinity Designer selects objects that are not within the selection window.

This happens with both selection tools:

You can see that objects were added even though I am not touching the object and I am even outside its bounding box.

This is a file that I exported as PDF from Rhino.

Buggy selection.afdesign

Windows 10.0.19045, Affinity Designer 2.0.4.

[carl123]

Due to your curves being rotated it looks like your selection is intersecting objects based on their "regular bounds" rather than their "base box" which is what you want.

Not sure of an easy way to "cure" that but someone else might

 

[Intuos5]

Yeah, that seems to be the case.

[Paul Mudditt]

On iPad version turning this setting off makes a difference, not near desktop to check.

EDIT:  TIP: I would also recommend when tracing simply use the pencil tool in smart mode and tap tap tap around each plot with about 4 or 5 nodes very roughly placed then double tap first node to complete the shape. Follow that up using the node tool to reposition each node and use bezier handles with the option/alt key to position each line, rather than drawing small line segments then trying to join them afterwards.

Edited March 10, 2023 by Paul Mudditt
Tip added

[DWright]

On the desktop version this option can be found in the following location in the Preferences.

[Intuos5]

Given the orientation of the lines, it is near impossible to window select them even with this option checked. I joined them up manually, but I would expect the tools not to work this way, but the way they do when selecting an ellipse on the outside (mind you a window selection within the ellipse also selects the ellipse if you don't touch it).

In other words, I would expect a bounding box selection if an only if the shapes are actually filled. Without a fill, I would expect to have to touch the paths themselves. But seeing how this works, I guess it's not necessarily a bug, but expected behaviour.

[Paul Mudditt]

4 minutes ago, Intuos5 said:

Given the orientation of the lines, it is near impossible to window select them even with this option checked. I joined them up manually, but I would expect the tools not to work this way, but the way they do when selecting an ellipse on the outside (mind you a window selection within the ellipse also selects the ellipse if you don't touch it).

 

In other words, I would expect a bounding box selection if an only if the shapes are actually filled. Without a fill, I would expect to have to touch the paths themselves. But seeing how this works, I guess it's not necessarily a bug, but expected behaviour.

For the reasons you are seeing, when tracing, it is best to change from line drawing to shape drawing as I mention in my TIP in my edit of my previous post above.

[Intuos5]

All I have to do is join the segments so I can change their style. It's a Rhino export, don't need to modify the geometry otherwise. Hopefully with the next release DXF importing is fixed and I won't have to bother. Even Rhino's dotted display is bugged at the moment in the Work In Progress version, so yeah workaround for a workaround for a workaround.