> Keep in mind that you can turn off all layers that you don't want to > mess with. Then do a group select and a group delete. Does it sound > like I have seen this before?
One thing Q3Radiant (the quake level editor) has that's nice is separate "select enclosed" and "select touching" (i.e. select anything touching the rectangle you draw) operations. When removing traces connected to a component, "select touching" would be more useful.
