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Inter face
Hide S elected—Hides the selec ted object(s).
Hide Unselected—Hides all visible objects except
theselectedones.Usethistohideallobjectsexcept
the one you’re working on. Objects hidden by
category aren’t affected.
Hide by Name—Displays a dialog you us e to hide
objects you choose from a list. See
Select Objects
Dialog (page 1–78)
,whichdescribesnearly
identical controls.
Hide by H it—Hides any object you click in the
viewport. If you hold the CTRL key while selecting
anobject,thatobjectandallofitschildrenare
hidden. To exit Hide by Hit mode, right-click,
press ESC, or select a different function. This
mode is automatically turned off if you hide all
objects in the scene.
Unhide Al l—Unhides al l hidden objects. The
unhide buttons are available only when you have
specifically hidden one or more objects. The y
won’t unhide objects hidden by category.
Note: If you click Unhide All in a scene with hidden
layers,adialogwillpopuppromptingyouto
unhide all layers. You cannot unhide an object on
ahiddenlayer.
Unhide by Name—Displays a dialog you use to
unhide objects you choose from a list. See
Select
Objects Dialog (page 1–78)
,whichdescribes
nearly identical controls.
Note: Ifyouselectanobjectonahiddenlayer,a
dialogwillpopuppromptingyoutounhidethe
object’s layer. You cannot un hide an object on a
hidden layer.
Hide Frozen Obj ects—Hides any frozen objects.
Turn it off to display hidden frozen objects.
Fr e ez e R o ll o u t
Display panel > Freeze rollo ut
The Freeze rollout pro vides controls that let you
freeze or unf reeze (page 3–1039)
individual objects
by selecting them, regard less of their categor y.
Frozen objects remain on the screen, but you can’t
select,transform,ormodifythem. Bydefault,
frozen objects turn dark gray. Frozen lights and
cameras, and their associated viewports, continue
to work as they normally do.
You can choose to have frozen objects retain their
usual color or texture in viewports. Use the Show
Frozen In Gray toggle in the
Object Properties
dialog (page 1–111)
.