Any news on this?
It’s really difficult to model in Blender without ability to select all mesh elements inside the selection box. Setting Xray all the way to 1 does not solve the problem as Xray value ignores display of the mesh element outlines.
Modeling in Blender has lately turned into annoying barrage of hitting the xray toggle mode all the time, as something like this is just not readable at all:
(That’s Xray at 1.0 for illustration). But at the same time, inability to select through is causing tons of errors, especially when working in orthographic views.
The mental burden of constantly tracking if I am in the mode which allows me to select through or not, depending on the situation which changes constantly and quickly is now offloaded to me, user. That makes modeling quite uncomfortable experience.
There really needs to be another feature to allow user to select everything inside the selection box, regardless of occlusion, which is completely decoupled from the Xray mode, and not using face dots to select the faces. Basically, selection the way it works in all other DCCs.