Problem selecting objects and lines

[andrewere]

I'm using AD for basic 2 D garden designs and it has been pretty good so far. Mostly using the pen tool, shapes tool and creating assets. The problem I'm having is clicking to select certain items to move or resize them. Some things will be selected, others not. I can drag to select but this is difficult with many small items close together. With the items that are not 'clickable' it is possible to drag and select them. I haven't been using layers but I can see every item is in layers automatically so I tried clicking Edit all layers which had no effect. The problem seems quite random and sometimes when I click on an object or line something else will be selected. What am I doing wrong?

[firstdefence]

Maybe a file you are working on would help so we can get a better idea of what you are using

 

[andrewere]

Sorry for my delayed response. I have attached a file of a work in progress drawing. Some of the drawing elements were imported into Assets from Drawplus 5.

holme farm.afdesign

[gdenby]

I think the selection problem is because you have groups inside groups. On the right side of the pond, the grouping is three levels deep, which would ordinarily require multiple clicks to get down to the individual curves.

 

There is some other problem, tho'. If I completely ungroup the curves, I can only click select the one that was top most in the hierarchy. Command clicking allows me to step thru that grass cluster. Clicking on the soil dots activates a section of some root cluster. If I zoom in close enough, I can marquee drag across individual curves.

 

Grouped, I can make a selection by stepping thru the layers, or switch to outline view, and click on specific vectors.