I tried to re-create this problem but I have no issues with maya 2016 doing this. Are you using Maya 2016 SP6? Try and set your scale to meters and also bring up your clipping values on your Perspective camera.
Hey all, Hopefully you guys have run into this before and know how to fix it. When working in large scenes in maya 2016 like 60mx30m or something. Once I start getting multiple large assets in the scene, can just be cubes and cylinders my selection starts to not work. I will select one asset and it will select something…