On Fri, 2004-09-03 at 08:30, John Cliff wrote:
This sounds very similar to the way several CAE packages handle this issue. FOr instance in Patran, (a finite element preprocessor) when you click to select something where you could be aiming for any of a choice of objects its pops up a list box of possibles, automatically selecting the 'top' one. if thats the rightone you can carry on as usual and it doesnt affect the work flow at all, or you can change which items selected, and then carry on. Unigraphics does something similar, except when the list pops up you can cycle through the options using the middle mouse button.
could be a useful tool.
Another UG feature that might be nice to have (for some uses) is those little "tooltips" that pop up with editable coordinate fields in them.
-mental