Select all objects per layer in Documents pane

I'm not sure if this used to work (I think it did), or if its possible, but I think this is a good use case.

Say I import a well organized svg. In this case, my svg was created with Affinity Designer, and exported at 96dpi, so scale is alright. I want to create two operations: first a drill process, then manually change bits, and run a CNC vector operation.


Now, I'd like to select the small circles and create a Drill toolpath. Clicking one by one might be an option in a small file like this.


...but, what if I click the whole layer/document instead? Shouldn't (or couldn't) that by default, select all objects within that layer group?


Edit: I just read the text within de Toolpaths panel (in facto I had it selected in the first screenshot). If I understand correctly, selecting from the Document tree *should* work. I'm on Chrome 88.0.4324.182 if that helps

 

Thanks Peter!
These are my files: workspace and original svg.

But it's been like this for several weeks (maybe more....) for me, maybe it's something with Chrome in Mac?

Also weird, not sure if related or not, is that left-mouse click works as orbit rather than select (posted a small video screenshot here), and and middle button as zoom, not orbit.

The same is true in Chrome, Safari and Edge

 

Awesome!!! Thank you
I can confirm it's working fine now.

Can you also please verify if mouse buttons behaviour is what is expected?

 

Left and middle click behaviour seems inconsistent with labels in the help overlay div (I'm inspecting code).

I'm using a standard usb mouse, and also a Macbook trackpad. My observation is that regardless of mouseState (select, move, delete, scale):

• Left-click-drag works as orbit in addition to the selected function. This makes moving objects difficult, because the 3D view orbits, changes as you are dragging an object.
• Middle click and vertical drag works as zoom, rather than orbit as stated in the label
• Wheel works as zoom (expected and OK)
• Right-click-drag works as Pan (expected and OK)

I hope this makes sense, please let me know if I can help debug this further (if it is indeed a bug)

 

To further clarify, I recon this behavior is equivalent in CONTROL, which is great UX practice. However, select and move in CAM seems to require disabling orbit

 

And to clarify even more

I'm now testing Chromium and Firefox on Lubuntu and it works as expected, i.e. left click is select, and not orbit, middle click is orbit.
This reduces the bug to Mac (chrome and Safari so far).