8
$\begingroup$

How do you select an entire UV island on a mesh by selecting a piece of the desired island? Similar to the Ctrl+L for selecting all connecting geometry, only selecting all geometry within seams.

I.E. select a vertex within an island.

mesh with seam marked

And hit some hot-key to extend the selection to the marked seams.

mesh selected

I use this feature all the time in 3ds Max, so I can unwrap a piece at a time. It would be a huge timesaver to be able to do this in Blender as well.

|improve this question
$\endgroup$
  • $\begingroup$ That's odd.. The select linked operator has a limit by seams option in the redo panel (F6), but it doesn't seem to work? Might be a bug. $\endgroup$ – gandalf3♦ Sep 26 '14 at 0:34
  • $\begingroup$ Limit by seams only works in face-select mode (note, Blender should really be changed to report a warning if used in vert/edge mode) $\endgroup$ – ideasman42 Sep 26 '14 at 0:58
  • 3
    $\begingroup$ I mean there should be, as in - We should add one!, Will try resolve these issues (and make some other planned improvements) to select linked in the next week or 2. $\endgroup$ – ideasman42 Sep 26 '14 at 1:11
  • $\begingroup$ Update, this is now supported in Blender 2.75. $\endgroup$ – ideasman42 May 16 '15 at 2:42
5
$\begingroup$

To select an entire island within seam boundaries: In edit mode activate FACE SELECT, hover the mouse over the wanted island, and press L.

Not exactly what you are asking for, but hopefully helpful.

|improve this answer
$\endgroup$
11
$\begingroup$

Update, UV islands in Vert/Edge/Face modes has been added

In the operator options, enable UV as a delimiter to select UV islands:

  • Select a vertex/edge/face.
  • Press Ctrl+LKey.
  • Enable UV option in toolbar.

Previous answer (Versions 2.74 or older)

Select linked can delimit by seams, but this only works in face-select mode *:

  • Switch to face select mode
  • Press LKey over the region, the selection will be restricted to the seams.

If you don't have seams around the UV island, you can automatically create them.

  • Image Window, UV -> Seams from Islands

* - this is intentional, select-linked traverses only faces in face-select mode, and edges in vert/edge mode.

|improve this answer
$\endgroup$

Your Answer

By clicking “Post Your Answer”, you agree to our terms of service, privacy policy and cookie policy

Not the answer you're looking for? Browse other questions tagged or ask your own question.