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3. Click Sample in the list. Then click the Select Objects by Name button in the Named
Selection Sets toolbar (Figure 1.44).
4. The Select Objects dialog box displays—this is identical to the Select from Scene dialog
box that you used in the previous exercise. Select one of the names in the list that doesn’t
already appear in the Named Selection Sets dialog box, as shown in Figure 1.45, and then
click the Select button. This selects the listed objects in the scene but doesn’t add them to
the named selection set.
Several Objects Acting As One
It may appear that objects in the Select Objects or Select From Scene dialog boxes are different than
the objects listed in the Named Selection Sets dialog box. This is only partially correct. The chairs
used in these exercises are groups, collections of objects that react as if they were a single object. The
Select Objects and Select From Scene dialog boxes display the names of the groups, but the Named
Selection Sets dialog box displays the names of the component objects that make up the groups.
Groups are covered in more detail in the “Working with Groups” section in Chapter 2.
Figure 1.43
The Named Selection
Sets dialog box show-
ing the contents of the
Sample selection set
Figure 1.44
Select Objects
by Name
Figure 1.45
Selecting an object
with the Select
Objects dialog box
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