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Hide S elected—Hides the selected objects.
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 use to
hide objects you choose from a list. See Select
Objects dialog (page 1–78),whichdescribesnearly
identical controls.
Hide by Hit—Hides any object you click in the
viewport. If you hold the
Ct rl 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 All —Unhides all hidden objects. The
unhide buttons are available only when you have
specifically hidden one or more objects. They
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 Na me—Displays a dialog you use to
unhide objects you choose from a list. See Select
Objects dialog (page 1–78),whichdescribesnearly
identical controls.
Note: Ifyouselectanobjectonahiddenlayer,a
dialogwillpopuppromptingyoutounhidethe
object’s layer. You cannot unhide an object on a
hidden layer.
Hide Frozen Objects—Hides any frozen objects.
Turn it off to display hidden frozen objects.
Fr e ez e Rol l o u t
Display panel > Freeze rollout
The Freeze rollout provides controls that let you
freeze or unfreeze (page 3–945) individual objects
by selecting them, regardless of their category.
Frozen objects remai n on the screen, but you can’t
select,transform,ormodifythem. Bydefault,
frozen objects turn dark gray. Frozen lights and
cameras, and their associated v iewports, cont inue
to work as they normally do.
You can choose to have frozen objects retain their
usual color or texture in viewports. Use t he Show
Frozen In Gray toggle in the Object Properties
dialog (page 1–117).