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Selection Lock Toggle
Status bar > Selection Lock Toggle
Keyboard > SPACEBAR
Selection Lock Toggle toggles selection locking on and off. Lock selections so
you don’t inadvertently select something else in a complex scene.
When your selection is locked, you can drag the mouse anywhere on screen
without losing your selection. The cursor displays the current selection icon.
When you want to deselect or alter your selection, click Lock Selection again
to turn off locked selection mode.
When you want to select something and you can’t, it's frequently because
you have locked your selection.
This button is off by default.
Click to turn it on (it turns yellow). When Lock Selection is on, you can
click anywhere in a viewport and the program interprets it as clicking the
selected object(s). This is useful when you want to keep objects selected while
you make a different viewport active or when the selection is tiny, or crowded
and difficult to select.
Procedures
To transform an object without touching it:
1 Use the Selection Floater from the Tools menu, the Select By Name button
on the main toolbar or press the H key to select the object by name.
2 Click the transform button (move, rotate, or scale) from the main toolbar
.
3
On the status bar, turn on the Selection Lock toggle or press the
Spacebar to lock the selection set.
4 Press and drag anywhere in the viewport.
The object transforms even though you are not touching it.
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