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Schematic View Selection Right-Click Menu 703
Select quadrant
Select Tool— Activates the Select tool when Always
Arrange is turned on. Activates the Select and
Move tool when Always Ar range is off.
Select All—Choose Selec t A ll to select everything
in the window.
Tip: HolddowntheCTRLkeytoaddtoselections,
and the ALT key to subtract from them .
Select None— Choose Select None to deselect
everything.
Select Invert—Deselects selected entities and
selects all other entities in the current Schematic
View.
Select Children—Selects all children of the current
selection.
Deselect Children—Deselects children of all
selected entities. Parent and child must be selected
for child t o become unselected.
Sync Selection—Synchronizes the selection in
the Schematic View w indow with t he viewport.
Whatever you have selected in the Schematic
View window becomes selected in the viewpor t.
What ever you select in the viewport becomes
selected in Schematic View. It’s a two-way street.
Layout quadrant
Free All—Frees all entities from arrangement rules,
tags them w ith a hole icon on their left end and
leaves them in place. Use this to freely arrange all
objects.
Free S elected—Frees all selected entities from
arrangement rules, tags them with a hole icon on
their lef t end and leaves them in place. Use this to
freely arr ange selected objects.
Arrange Selected— Arranges the display of the
selection based on the arr angement preferences.
Arrange Children—Ar ranges the display of children
based on s et arrangement rules (align options)
below the selected parent.
Unhide A ll—Displays all the nodes in the scene.
If the resulting Schematic View is too cluttered
to work with, try using Preferences to remove
what you don’t need to see. Or make indiv idual
selections and hide upstream or downstream to
unclutter the display.
Hide S elected—Hides the selection in the
Schematic View window.
Expand Selected—Reveals the display of all child
entities of selected entity.
Contract S e l e cte d—Hides the display of all children
of selected entity, leaving the selected entity visible.
Edit quadrant
Connect Tool—Activates the connect tool. This
tool in Schematic View can be used to create many
Schematic View relationships such as parent,
constraint, copy modifier, copy controller, or copy
material.
Unlink S elected— Disconnects the selected entities
Delete S elected—Deletes entities from Schematic
View a nd from the scene. This also can be used to
disconnect selected relationships.
Assign Controller—Displays the Assign controller
dialog. Thisisavailableonlywhencontroller
entities are selected.
Wire Parameters—Let’s you wire parameters using
Schematic View. This is active only when entities
are selected. This launches the standard Wire
Parameters dialog.
Edit Proper t ies—Displays the Object Properties
dialog for the selected objects.