Topic: window or crossing selection within a hatch

[ZNETQ]

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I'm trying to select the 3 plines sitting inside the big blue solid hatch in one go by window or crossing selection.

There is no way to select any other object that the hatch itself if I start the selection from a point located inside the hatch boundaries. By contrast, the selection works fine if I start the selection window outside the hatch

Is this the standard behavior or am I missing something ? Is there a system variable involved with that behavior ?
Running vanilla acad2012 fullversion, PICKFIRST 1, PICKSTYLE 0

[Rob...]

Can you select them by picking?

[ZNETQ]

Thanks for your reply
Yes, selecting each pline by picking works
Not what I'm trying to achieve though

[Rob...]

I understand. I just wanted to make sure that they were selectable. I cannot recreate the problem. Can you post a file? Maybe not, as you are new here but give it a try.

[ZNETQ]

sure, you should see the dwg attached

[Rob...]

I didn't fully read your post earlier. Not quite awake at that time. That is normal behavior. I thought there was a variable for hatches to be selectable only at the boundary, similar to images, but can't find it at the moment.

[ZNETQ]

thanks for taking the time to answer Rob !

[Rob...]

No problem. If I can verify that that setting exists, I'll be back.