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Assembly Commands 107
Procedure
To atta ch a n object to a group:
1.
Selectoneormoreobjectstoattach.
2. Choose Group > Attach.
3. Click any member of a closed group.
The selected objects become part of the group,
which is now selected.
Note: To attach an object to an open group, click
the pink bounding box.
As sembly Commands
Thecommandstomanageassembliesareavailable
fromtheGroup>Assemblysubmenu.
Assemble (page 1–107)
Disassemble (page 1–110)
Open Assembly (page 1–109)
Close Assembly (page 1–109)
Attach Assembly (page 1–111)
Detach Assembly (page 1–110)
Explode Assembly (page 1–110)
See also
Using Assemblies (page 1–98)
Assemble
Select the objects to assemb le. > Group menu >
Assembly > Assemble
The Assemble command combines a selection set
of objects, assemblies, and/or groups into a single
assembly, and adds a Lu minaire helper object (page
1–111) as a head object (page 1–111).
Once you assemble objects, you can t reat them as
a single object in your scene. You can click any
objectinthegrouptoselecttheentireassembly.
You can transform the assembly as a single object,
and you can apply modifiers as if it wer e a single
object.
Assemblies can contain other assemblies and/or
groups, up to any level.
Assembly names are sim ilar to object names,
except that they’re carried by t he assembly. In
listsliketheoneintheSelect Objects dialog (page
1–78), assembly names appear in square brackets.
Fo r example: [Assembly01].
Each member of an assembly inherits the visibility
of the parent when a v isibility controller is assigned
to the parent, providing its Object Properties
>RenderingControlgroup>InheritVisibility
check box is turned on, or if its Rendering Control
is set to By Layer and Inherit Visibility is turne d
on for its layer.
Assemblies are considered whole objects in the
Light Exclude/Include di alog, so you can exclude
(or include) all objects in an a ssembly by selecting
the assembly in the list. If an assembly is nested
w ithin another assembly, only the "outer" assembly
is available in the list. To exclude only certain
objects in an assembly, open the assembly b efore
displaying the Exclude/Include dialog.
See also
Using Assemblies (page 1–98)
Procedures
To define an assembly:
1.
Select two or more objects.
2. Choose Group menu > Assembly > Assemble.
The Create Assembly dialog appears. It requests
youtospecifyanamefortheassemblyand