I have the same question as the (obviously very forward-thinking) below post from 7 years ago asking if there is any “selection filter” in Schematic Editor to allow selection of specific objects, say… by type, reference designator, etc.) I’m very surprised this was never answered nor discussed since 2017.
Thankfully KiCAD PCB Editor does have a very useful selection filter, so it seems strange and a bit inconsistent that Schematic Editor is missing this capability. This would be a very useful and time-saving feature for schematic editing, as evidenced by the fact it does exist in PCB Editor.
It’s better for pose the question in a new topic rather than refer to a 7 year old discussion. People can follow the link if they want. Feel free to edit your question to be clearer what you want instead of relying on old context.
Yeah, I hear you, but surprisingly the old thread was still open, and since it’s usually bad form to post duplicate questions, I just replied and expected it would land in (and bump) the existing thread. However it seems the forum split my reply into a new thread, and closed the 7 year old thread. Noted for next time.
The reason we prefer you start a new topic is because you read the topic and have digested all that went before. But think of the people who have to read your question. They have to work out which of the previous posts are relevant and which are not, given that time and versions have gone past since the topic was started. They do not have your viewpoint.
And in fact it is to your benefit to start a new topic because it will be more visible. An old topic daunts answers.
If it turns out that new topic is still relevant to the old topic we can do a merge. This happens much less often than a split and usually happens to recent topics. So don’t worry about duplicates, we can handle those too.
Click and hold in this case does mean exactly what it says. A long left click on an area with multiple objects (more than a second?) pops up a little menu near the mouse to let you pick which object to select.
Edit: there aren’t any major differences in left/right/middle clicking between platforms, though there are differences in the modifier keys that affect clicking
OK, I see what you mean now. Thanks for the clarification.
But how is that relevant to this thread? The press-hold selection specifier is only for single item selection. It does not work when multiple items selected.
The context of this thread is for selecting multiple items, but filtering to only specific items of interest (by type, or ref des, etc).
Looks like a commit was made just a few days ago fixing this (see the referenced issue. Guess we’ll see this in 9.0 (or nighties for those brave enough to do that this early in the release cycle)
(or nighties for those brave enough to do that this early in the release cycle)