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Select Object 77
Se le ct Ob ject
Main toolbar > Select Object
Right-click to open quad menu. > Transform quadrant
> Select
Select Object lets you select an object or objects
for manipulation.
Object selection is affected by se veral other
controls:
• The ac tive select ion region type:
Rectangular
(page 1–80)
, Circular (page 1–81) , Fence (page
1–81)
,or Lasso (page 1–82) .
•Theactiveselectionfilter(All,Geometry,
Shapes, Lights, and so forth ).
• The st ate of the crossing selection tool (which
determines whether completely surrounded
objects or surrounded and crossing objects are
selected).
You can also select objects by name using the Select
By Name list; press the H key to access the list.
A number of objects selected together are cal led a
selection set (page 1–67) . You can name selection
sets in the Named Selection Sets field on the Main
toolbar and then recall them for later use.
Pr ocedur es
To a dd or r emove indiv id ual obj ects fr om a sel ection
set:
• Hold down the CTRL key and select the objects
to add or remove.
• Hold down the ALT key and select objects to
remove from the current selection set.
Note: Adding and removing objects doesn’t
change a named selection set.
To toggle the selected/deselected s tate of mul tipl e
obj e ct s i n t he s el e ct i on s e t:
• HolddowntheSHIFTkeyanddragto
region-select the object s to toggle.
To s el ect ob j ect s and move, r ota te, or scale them:
• Use the Select And Move, S
elect
And Rotate, or Select And Scale tools, available
from the Main toolbar and the quad menu >
Transform quadrant.
When you rotate a selec
tion set, the pivot of
rotation depends on which option is selected
on the
Use Center flyout (page 1–426) on the
toolbar.
These tools are rest
ricted to a specific axis
or plane, which you choose from the axis
constraints toolbar. Right-click any blank area
of the toolbar and a
ctivate the Axis Constraints
toolbar to access these tools.
Select By Name Butt
on
main toolbar > Select By Name
Keyboard > H
Select By Name lets
you select objects by choosing
them from a list of all objects currently in the scene
using the
Select Objects dialog (page 1–78) .
Note: TheSelectByNamebuttonandSelect
Objectsdialogar
e context dependent. When one
ofthetransforms(suchasSelectAndMoveor
Select And Manipulate) is active, the dialog lets
you choose from a
ll objects in the scene. But when
certain mo des are active, the choices in the dialog
aremorelimited.Forexample,whenSelectAnd
Link is active
, the dialog is entitled Select Parent,
and shows linkable objects but not the child object
already selected. Similarly, if Group > Attach is