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Apply to All Duplicates Treats all subsequent incoming objects with duplicate

names the same way you specified for the current object. No further alerts

will appear. This option is not available if you renamed the current object.

Cancel Cancels the merge operation.

Material Name Conflicts

When one or more materials assigned to incoming objects have the same

name as materials in the scene, an alert gives you the following options:

Rename Merged Material Defines the name for incoming material.

Use Merged Material Assigns the characteristics of the incoming materials

to the same-named scene materials.

Use Scene Material Assigns the characteristics of the scene materials to the

same-named incoming materials.

NOTE Only top-level material names (not sub-materials) are checked for duplicates.

Auto Rename Merged Material Automatically renames the incoming

materials to new names. Uses Material number names based on the next

available Material number.

Apply to All Duplicates Treats all subsequent incoming Materials with

duplicate names the same way you specified for the current object.

Parent Name Conflicts

When you merge an object that’s linked to a parent object in a source scene,

and an object of the same name as the original parent exists in the current

scene, the

Merge File dialog on page 6858 opens, giving you the option to

re-create the same hierarchy.