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Sync Selection Synchronizes the selection in the Schematic View window
with the viewport. Whatever you have selected in the Schematic View window
becomes selected in the viewport. Whatever 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 with a hole icon
on their left end and leaves them in place. Use this to freely arrange all objects.
Free Selected Frees all selected entities from arrangement rules, tags them
with a hole icon on their left end and leaves them in place. Use this to freely
arrange selected objects.
Arrange Selected Arranges the display of the selection based on the
arrangement preferences.
Arrange Children Arranges the display of children based on set arrangement
rules (align options) below the selected parent.
Unhide All 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 individual selections and hide upstream or
downstream to unclutter the display.
Hide Selected Hides the selection in the Schematic View window.
Expand Selected Reveals the display of all child entities of selected entity.
Contract Selected 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 Selected Disconnects the selected entities
Delete Selected Deletes entities from Schematic View and from the scene.
This also can be used to disconnect selected relationships.
Assign Controller Displays the Assign controller dialog. This is available only
when controller 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.
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