"gluteous maximus equus" <none@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> If that worked then no need for clip/suppress and no need
>> to slide the Insert bar up through dozens or hundreds of
>> suppressed features. Talk about tedious and time
>> consuming! just try to get that bar to slide when your
>> destination requires the bar to scroll above the last
>> visible feature, hopping up one feature at a time. Or you
>> do the scroll bar and drag some more, scroll bar, drag
>> some more, etc. Think I'll pass on this "easy" way.
>
>
> Model Tree Items Display; clear the Suppressed Objects tick box.
>
And this gets the OP's "Insert" bar where he needs it?
>
> A person such as myself reading this discussion might get the impression
> that there's something inherently 'bad' about Clip Suppress or slovenly
> about anyone that would us it. If that is so would someone please
> make that case.
>
Not "bad", just a seemingly eleborate work around to no apparent advantage
over the tools designed for the job. The only advantage mentioned was
scrolling an insert bar vs a couple menu picks (typically automated with a
map key). Again, the advantage seemed illusory.
> On a parallel, re: "slide the Insert bar up through dozens or hundreds
of
> suppressed features"; I don't often work with a Model Tree longer than a
> page or two in length having Grouped features solely for the purpose of
> keeping it short, use them as 'volatile' structures, Grouping and
> Ungrouping to ****ft relevant and irrelevant to task at hand features
into
> view. Doesn't everyone?
Groups are inherently volatile if only because of the lack of
functionality
for maintaining them. While you can drag/add a feature to a group, you
can't
remove features. So ungrouping and reconstituting the group is normal.
But,
you're right, it's a very handy way of organizing and maintaining the
model
tree, making it more obvious what's going on (as long as you rename
meaningfully) and reducing it's length. In fact, it's a fairly common
practice of mine to get the end of a modelling session and to start
dragging
features around, specifically to make them easier to group. The other
great
advantage of groups is that you can pattern them.
David Janes
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