how to disable selection of hidden edges?

[solidworm]

is there an option to disable pre-highlighting and selection of hidden edges? it's useful to be able to select hidden edges for simple parts but when they are complex, it usually selects the back hidden edges instead of front face, i prefer to disable this behavior and use RMB to cycle through the available list of entities if i want to select a hidden edge.

 

[altendky]

I finally got fed up with the same thing this morning. I didn't look to much for a direct solution but instead made mapkeys to speed up setting the smart select to surfaces (or parts).


mapkey ss @MAPKEY_LABELSmart Select Surfaces;\
mapkey(continued) ~ Select `main_dlg_cur` `Sst_bar.filter_list`1 `13`;
mapkey sc @MAPKEY_LABELSmart Select Parts (Components);\
mapkey(continued) ~ Select `main_dlg_cur` `Sst_bar.filter_list`1 `1`;


Annoyingly, you'll notice that it selects from the list by number so as the list of options changes in various places it will select different things. :[ Of course you can always skip the mapkeys and just manually use the drop down list without that silly problem.