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Procedures
To assign a precedence value to an object manually:
1 Select an object in an HD IK Chain.
2 Open the Object Parameters rollout in the Hierarchy panel.
3 Enter a value in the Precedence field.
To assign Child->Parent precedence to all objects in a kinematic chain:
1 Select all objects in an HD IK chain.
2 Open the Object Parameters rollout in the Hierarchy panel.
3 Click Child>Parent.
To assign Parent->Child precedence to all objects in a kinematic chain:
1 Select all objects in the kinematic chain.
2 Open the Object Parameters rollout in the Hierarchy panel.
3 Click Parent->Child.
To reset the default joint precedence:
1 Select all objects in the kinematic chain.
2 Open the Object Parameters rollout in the Hierarchy panel.
3 Set the value in the Precedence field to 0.
Interface
Three controls set precedence:
Precedence Manually assigns precedence values to any object in the IK chain.
High precedence values are calculated before low precedence values. Precedence
values that are equal are calculated in Child>Parent order.
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