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  • October 20, 2023 at 12:42 am #16983
    Tobias Krause
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      Just if someone else runs into this issue: for some reason (I don’t know which) pressing Alt key and left mouse button does nothing in my Blender. Instead when I double click a vertex / edge / face in Edit mode I get the loop selection.

      October 20, 2023 at 5:20 am #81723
      Adrian Bellworthy
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        That’s probably to do with your settings rather than a different version of Blender.
        Or it could be because of a tool selection mode or even an add-on changing default behaviour.

        It’s hard to say exactly why without seeing it in Blender.

        If you still have this issue, could you record a video, or add some images, of your Blender, showing the toolbar, the Keymap preferences and any add-ons you have enabled, and the action itself.

        Video can be uploaded to google drive, dropbox or similar and share the link here
        Images can be added via the image icon on the content toolbar.
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        October 20, 2023 at 5:47 am #81724
        Martin Bergwerf
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          It could also be the OS overriding some of the ALT+…  shortcuts. I’ve experienced that with some Linux distros for instance.

          October 20, 2023 at 7:22 am #81725
          Omar Domenech
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            Never heard of that behavior before, but now that I think about it it’s blowing my mind, Blender has no double click functions and that’s so computer basics. And somehow you double click and get loop selection? That is some October Halloween scary movie type of stuff. I’d try any of the solutions out just so you don’t get accustomed to loop selecting like that and because it’s freaky.

            October 20, 2023 at 7:34 am #81726
            Martin Bergwerf
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              I believe that double click for Loop Select was introduced at 2.80 or soon after, as an alternative to ALT Click, but I can’t get it to work on my pc (I remember having used it in the past though…but memory can be deceiving.)

              October 20, 2023 at 8:00 am #81727
              Adrian Bellworthy
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                Maybe @RedRay Visuals you are using an old version of Blender?

                October 20, 2023 at 8:33 am #81728
                Dwayne Savage
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                  You are using emulate 3 button mouse. When you check that it makes face/edge loop select double click. This has been in blender since 2.76b.

                  October 20, 2023 at 9:45 am #81729
                  Martin Bergwerf
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                    Ah, thank you Dwayne @dillenbata3 ,

                    (But that is only when also using Left Click Select. Because ALT+LMB becomes the MMB. If you use RCS, then Loop Select is ALT+RMB and that still works.)

                    April 1, 2024 at 8:48 pm #81730
                    Brett first
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                      I’m using 2.83 LTS and I can confirm that with “Emulate 3 Button Mouse” is turned on, double clicking Left Mouse Button = Loop Select.

                      With “Emulate 3 Button Mouse” turned off, ALT+ Left button mouse = Loop Select 

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