I occasionally run into the issue when selecting anchors and having them accidentally shift. I have two questions:
is it possible to add a click and drag option to be able to select anchors with a modifier key?
is it possible to add an option for locking the vertical, horizontal, or both positions of an anchor?
I typically want to lock the vertical position to some level (baseline, x-height, cap-height, etc) and then focus on shifting the anchor along the horizontal.
I am imagining X and Y padlocks next to the values.
One option for the shifting along the horizontal, in the meanwhile: if you use the Shift key while dragging, movement will be in either horizontal or vertical to the original position.
I don’t necessarily need to select all the anchors. At times I want to be able to select nodes and anchors together using drag-n-select in one fell swoop…instead of dragging to select the nodes and then clicking on the anchor.
Would it be possible to use a modifier key ( Option+drag ) to include anchors in the selection?
Thoughts on adding locks on the anchor x/y positions?
What if modifier keys aren’t used…instead the direction of click-n-drag can determine selection type.
There is an option in architecture/3d modelling programs (Rhino, Revit, SketchUp) to differentiate object selection by either dragging from the Top-Left –> Bottom-Right or Top-Right → Bottom-Left.
Here is an example from Rhino (start – 2min):
Maybe TL->BR is the default node selection and TR->BL can include anchors (and perhaps even guidlines?) in the selection box.
