I have a page with many objects and every object has duplicated with a copy of it exactly on it (every copy of each object overlapped exactly on it at same layer).

I want to select only under objects with rubber band selection method (I can not select each under object one by one with Alt+click trick because the total number of objects)

The problem is when I use rubber band selection method, all objects with duplicated objects in each level will be selected. How could I exclude Upper level objects from selection?

cant answer your question but i think this is one of the situations where layers really come in handy

If the objects below have the same fill attribute, then you can select them at once by the search tool.

Open the xml editor (Shift+Ctrl+X), copy one "hidden" object's fill attribute,
open the search panel (Ctrl+F), paste the attribute to the style field and run the search.

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Another method; keep Alt pressed click and hold left mouse button
over an empty area and draw a line over all top objects - release and invert selection !

RGDS
Ragnar

ragstian wrote:Another method; keep Alt pressed click and hold left mouse button
over an empty area and draw a line over all top objects - release and invert selection !

OP said he cant use that method because of too many objects

Thank's Ragnar!


The search tool may be useless too if the objects below have different fills.
If the objects above the hidden ones, are at the top in the z-order -like if they were made by duplicating the rectangle selected objects below at once-, then you may try to open the svg in a notepad and put the objects below in a group.
Finding them would be based on the position of the codes, thank's to svg's structure.
(Same as they were on a new layer.)

If the top and bottom pairs have a different z order than that, then it's useless again.