Selecting Backfacing Vertices in Solid or Lookdev Mode

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Good morning,

Is there a button or a key that toggles the ability to select backfacing vertices, edges, or faces while working in solid or lookdev mode?

Thanks!

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I’m not sure but I don’t think vertex and edge has any ‘backfacing’. And technically when you select a frontface, you are selecting backface as well. What are you trying to achieve exactly?

Though you can view face orientations via enabling from the overlay tab:
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Hi filibis, thank you for your reply.

Maybe backfacing was an incorrect term. Umm… I want to select the four vertices of this face while in User Perspective view and while also in either Solid or LookDev mode:

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I can only use a Select Box to select these two vertices, if the other two vertices are behind these two, relative to my view of the screen:

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What I want is all four of these selected:

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Allright, you can enable this and you should be able to select vertices at the back:
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You can do the same in wireframe mode.

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Works for me. Thank you. :slight_smile:

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