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Hey, I was just watching someone's time-lapse video. He was using Lightwave. The person used a lot of lasso select (which I know Blender has), but he also used a lot of a Proportional Editing Tool equivalent. What struck me, though, was that it appeared that he could constrain his PET to a certain selection. I can think of several times that such a capability would have been useful.

So, maybe blender could develop a masking ability where certain functions could only work on a constrained set of vertices/edges/faces. This would allow for an easy bevel-only-where-wanted fix, and allow for the PET to only operate on a user defined set of points. Some people might have found that they wanted to get the effect of PET, but not in a perfect circle.

Anyway, just an idea. And, on a side note, is there a lasso deselect in Blender?

Thanks for looking.

You can hide vertex ("H" key) so they don't be affected by PET

I know you can hide stuff, but I usually like to be able to see the model while I'm working in it. This way I can see what overall effect I'm getting out of using a constrained PET tool. Maybe just a function that effectively "hid" things, but left the hidden portion visible, would be easy to implement?

I'm not telling that wouldn't be cool but if you hide in wireframe you can see a ghosted view of the hidden geometry