Mouse highlighting entities

BillD
BillD
in 2D Drafting

I am moving from AutoCAD to Bricscad and there are a good many settings to get transferred. Please bear with me as I will be posting here a good number of times till I get things configured in the way I'm used to.

For now, when I move the mouse over the drawing, every entity the mouse crosses over becomes highlighted. I have looked through the settings and cannot find the switch to turn this behavior off. I'm only interested in highlighting something when I select it.

Where can I find the appropriate setting? Thank you.

Comments

  • Michael Mayer
    Michael Mayer
    edited April 2020

    I don't find the real setting - if there is any.

    But at least the setting "PreviewDelay", with a very high number of
    milliseconds, should prevent potential preview selection highlighting
    flashing when cruising with your cursor over your drawing.

  • Michael Mayer
    Michael Mayer

    BTW
    I don't get bothered by selection preview highlighting.
    I think it is important, especially in crowded files.
    Where you want to reach and select occluded geometry
    by cycling through selectable objects by pressing TAB key.

  • BillD
    BillD

    In case anyone else might be interested, I finally found the setting. It's under Program Options/Drafting/Selection/Selection Preview/Selection Preview Display where you need to uncheck "When no commands are active".

    If you leave it checked (default), the mouse highlights everything it touches whether or not a command is active or not. I find this feature distracting.

  • Michael Mayer
    Michael Mayer
    edited April 2020

    Funny,
    I did a lot of search in Settings but did not find it.
    Interestingly I also had customized that setting already,
    with "When no commands are active" OFF.
    :)

    But (!) it still works as expected for me and still highlights.
    Only when I deactivate the Quad (who ever would do that ?)
    that setting will prevent selection highlighting.