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what you don’t need to see. Or make individual
selections and hide upstream or downstream to
unclutter the display.
Hide S elected—Hides the selection in the
Schematic View window.
Expand Selected—Reveals the display of all child
entities of selected entity.
Contra ct S el e cte d—Hides the display of all children
of selected entit y, leaving the selected entity v isible.
Edit quadrant
Connect Tool—Activates the connect tool. This
tool in Schematic View can be used to create many
Schematic View relationships such as parent,
constraint, copy modifier, copy controller, or copy
mater ial.
Unlink S elected— Disconnects the selected entities
Delete Selected—Deletes entities from Schematic
View and from the scene. This also can be used to
disconnect selected relationships.
Assign Controller—Displays the Assign controller
dialog. Thisisavailableonlywhencontroller
entities are selected.
Wire Parameters—Let’s you wire parameters using
Schematic View. This is activ e only when entities
are selected. T his launches the standard Wire
Parameters dialog.
Edit Properti es—Displays the Object Propert ies
dialog for the selected objects.
Options quadrant
Shrink—Hides all selected entities’ boxes, keeps
arrangement and relationships visible.
Toggl e S hr ink —Changes the state of entity
shrinkage. Shrunken entities become unshrunken,
and the other way around.
Unshrink All—Makes all shrunken entities visible.
Unshr ink S elected—Makes all selected shrunken
entities visible.
Shrink Selected— Hides all selected entities’ boxes,
keeps arrangement and relationships visible.
List V ie ws
Sel ected Occu r rences— Opens or redraws List
V iew with all entities that share a property or
relationship type with currently selected entities
Selected Instances—Opens or redraws List View
with a l l instances of currently selected Schematic
View entities.
All I nstances—Opens or redraws List View with all
instances of currently displayed Schematic View
entities.
Selected R elationships—Opens or redraws List
View with all relationships of currently selected
Schematic Vie entities.
All Relationships—Opens or redraws List View with
all relationships of currently displayed Schematic
View entities.
Display Floater—Opens the Display floater and
activates the corresponding toolbar button.
Move Children— Sets Schemat ic View to move all
children of parent being moved. When this mode
is on, the toolbar button is activated.
Reference Mode— Sets Schematic View to display
entities as a reference graph instead of hierarchy.
Switching between Hierarchy and Reference mode
is nondestructiv e.
Hiera rchy Mode— Sets Schematic View to display
entities as a hierarchy instead of reference graph.
Children appear indented below the parent.
Switching between Hierarchy and Reference mode
is nondestructiv e.
Always Ar range— Sets Schematic View to
always arr ange all entities based on the chosen
arrangement preference. Displays a pop-up