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9. Selection Menu
Selection Filter
To enable one option and disable all others, hold down Ctrl and, from the
menu, choose the option you want to enable.
Use this menu to choose which types of object can be selected in the viewport (by default, all object
types are selectable). Enable an option to enable selection for that object type, or disable the option
to prevent selection.
You can still select objects in the Object manager even if their object types are
disabled. The Selection Filter refers to selections in the viewport only.
These options are especially useful when you are working with large projects. Suppose there are
dozens of lights, cameras, bones, polygon objects and splines in the scene and currently you’re
working on the polygon objects. To make it easier to select the polygon objects in the viewport,
disable all options on the Selection Filter menu apart from Polygon. Then you’ll be able to select
polygon objects only in the viewport.
The names of any Selection objects you have set up will also appear in this menu. Select the name of
a Selection object to quickly select that entire group of objects.
Select Tool
Use this tool to select like objects or like tags. For example, you can select all lights, all nulls or all
Texture tags. After choosing the command, the Select Tool dialog opens. There are two pages in this
dialog: one for objects and one for tags.