diff --git a/src/Gui/SelectionView.cpp b/src/Gui/SelectionView.cpp
index f62302e57b..a9c3b59035 100644
--- a/src/Gui/SelectionView.cpp
+++ b/src/Gui/SelectionView.cpp
@@ -225,6 +225,18 @@ void SelectionView::treeSelect(void)
     Gui::Command::runCommand(Gui::Command::Gui,"Gui.runCommand(\"Std_TreeSelection\")"); 
 }
 
+void SelectionView::touch(void)
+{
+    QListWidgetItem *item = selectionView->currentItem();
+    if (!item)
+        return;
+    QStringList elements = item->text().split(QString::fromLatin1("."));
+    // remove possible space from object name followed by label
+    elements[1] = elements[1].split(QString::fromLatin1(" "))[0];
+    QString cmd = QString::fromLatin1("App.getDocument(\"%1\").getObject(\"%2\").touch()").arg(elements[0]).arg(elements[1]);
+    Gui::Command::runCommand(Gui::Command::Doc,cmd.toLatin1());
+}
+
 void SelectionView::toPython(void)
 {
     QListWidgetItem *item = selectionView->currentItem();
@@ -264,6 +276,9 @@ void SelectionView::onItemContextMenu(const QPoint& point)
     zoomAction->setToolTip(tr("Selects and fits this object in the 3D window"));
     QAction *gotoAction = menu.addAction(tr("Go to selection"),this,SLOT(treeSelect()));
     gotoAction->setToolTip(tr("Selects and locates this object in the tree view"));
+    QAction *touchAction = menu.addAction(tr("Mark to recompute"),this,SLOT(touch()));
+    touchAction->setIcon(QIcon::fromTheme(QString::fromLatin1("view-refresh")));
+    touchAction->setToolTip(tr("Mark this object to be recomputed"));
     QAction *toPythonAction = menu.addAction(tr("To python console"),this,SLOT(toPython()));
     toPythonAction->setIcon(QIcon::fromTheme(QString::fromLatin1("applications-python")));
     toPythonAction->setToolTip(tr("Reveals this object and its subelements in the python console."));
diff --git a/src/Gui/SelectionView.h b/src/Gui/SelectionView.h
index 585e6eb003..0fd1304bcd 100644
--- a/src/Gui/SelectionView.h
+++ b/src/Gui/SelectionView.h
@@ -79,6 +79,7 @@ public Q_SLOTS:
     void zoom(void);
     void treeSelect(void);
     void toPython(void);
+    void touch(void);
 
 };