Difficulty checking instance origin

SBkev

Hi all,

I'm having difficulty checking the origin of an instance. The only method I'm aware of is double-clicking the cell's box when the levels are set appropriately, like so:

This works great when there's only 1 instance, however in this case where there's multiple overlapping instances, I have difficulty selecting the correct instance.

Are there other methods? A way to view the 'object properties' of multiple instances would be great

Thanks!

StefanThiede

you can select multiple instances, you selected only 1 of 1, that could be 1 of "many"

Matthias

or you cycle through the selection: just continue clicking until you see the right instance shown in the status bar.

For a better visual effect you can use this configuration:

Here are my settings:

Matthias

SBkev

Thanks for both of your suggestions! I never noticed the name in the status bar, nor did I realize you could select multiple and still 'double click'. smh

Thanks!

dick_freebird

I am still very interested to get a "selectable extents"
feature, like the old Brand X instance/dwg layer used
to act. Trying to dead-hit the zero width instance origin
is tough and using full extents is its own kind of pain
once you get to assemblies where extents overlap.

If you shift-click everything possible into the
selected-set, in the property editor spawned window
you can see a list and click-deselect "everything but
the one you wanted" (or some portion).

It might be cool to just go ahead and pop up, and
populate as it goes, that exact list. Maybe it could be
its own special window like the tree and layers ones.
Maybe some "select from the selection" feature to
let you property-edit or "to selection" operations apply
to "just the one, thanks"?