Menu

There are also many more options accessible through the Select menu of the 3D View. Each is more adapted to certain operations.

Select Grouped

Reference

Mode: Object Mode

Menu: Select ‣ Grouped

Hotkey: Shift-G

There are two ways to organize the objects in relation to one another. The first one is parenting, and the second is simple grouping. These relationships to an artist’s advantage by selecting members of respective families or groups. Select Grouped uses the active object as a basis to select all others.

Options

Children

Selects all hierarchical descendants of the active object.

Immediate Children

Selects all direct children of the active object.

Parent

Selects the parent of this object if it has one.

Siblings

Select objects that have the same parent as the active object. This can also be used to select all root level objects (objects with no parents).

Type

Select objects that are the same type as the active one.

Layer

Objects that have at least one shared layer.

Group

Objects that are part of a group (rendered green with the default theme) will be selected if they are in one of the groups that the active object is in. If the active object belongs to more than one group, a list will pop up so that we can select which group to select.

Object Hooks

Every hook that belongs to the active object.

Pass

Select objects assigned to the same render pass.

Color

Select objects with same Object Color.

Properties

Select objects with same Game Engine Properties.

Keying Set

Select objects included in the active Keying Set.

Lamp Type

Select matching lamp types.

Pass Index

Select matching object pass index.

Select Linked

Reference

Mode: Object Mode

Menu: Select ‣ Linked

Hotkey: Shift-L

Selects all objects which share a common data-block with the active object. Select Linked uses the active object as a basis to select all others.

Options

Object Data

Selects every object that is linked to the same Object Data, i.e. the data-block that specifies the type (mesh, curve, etc.) and the build (constitutive elements like vertices, control vertices, and where they are in space) of the object.

Material

Selects every object that is linked to the same material data-block.

Texture

Selects every object that is linked to the same texture data-block.

Dupligroup

Selects all objects that use the same Group for duplication.

Particle System

Selects all objects that use the same Particle System.

Library

Selects all objects that are in the same Library

Library (Object Data)

Selects all objects that are in the same Library and limited to object data.

Select All by Type

Reference

Mode: Object Mode

Menu: Select ‣ Select All by Type

Hotkey: None

With this tool, it becomes possible to select objects of a certain type in one go.

Options

The types are Mesh, Curve, Surface, Meta, Font, Armature, Lattice, Empty, Camera, Lamp, Speaker.

Select All by Layer

Reference

Mode: Object Mode

Menu: Select ‣ Select All by Layer

Hotkey: None

All by Layer selection menu.

This option allows the selection of every single object that belongs to a given layer. Selected objects become visible.

Options

Match

The match type for selection.

Extend

Enable to add objects to current selection rather than replacing the current selection.

Layer

The layer on which the objects are.

Tip

Selection of Objects

Rather than using the Select All by Layer option, it might be more efficient to make the needed layers visible and use A on them. This method also allows objects to be deselected.

More/Less

Reference

Mode: Object Mode

Menu: Select ‣ More/Less

Hotkey: Ctrl-NumpadPlus, Ctrl-NumpadMinus

Their purpose, based on the hierarchical.

More

Select connected parent/child objects.

Less

Deselect objects at the boundaries of parent/child relationships.

Parent

ToDo.

Child

ToDo.

Extend Parent

Extends the selection to the parent of the selection. ToDo: active object.

Extend Child

ToDo.

Other Menu Options

Available options on the first level of the menu are:

(De)select All A

If anything was selected it is first deselected. Otherwise it toggles between selecting and deselecting every visible object.

Action

Select, Deselect, Invert, Toggle

Inverse Ctrl-I

Selects all objects that were not selected, while deselecting all those which were.

Random

Randomly selects unselected objects based on percentage probability on currently active layers. On selecting the operator a numerical selection box becomes available in the Tool Shelf. It is important to note that the percentage represents the likelihood of an unselected object being selected and not the percentage amount of objects that will be selected.

Mirror Shift-Ctrl-M

Select the Mirror objects of the selected object, based on their names. e.g. “sword.L” and “sword.R”.

Select Camera

Select the active camera.

Select Pattern

Selects all objects whose name matches a given pattern. Supported wildcards: * matches everything, ? matches any single character, [abc] matches characters in “abc”, and [!abc] match any character not in “abc”. As an example *house* matches any name that contains “house”, while floor* matches any name starting with “floor”.

Case Sensitive

The matching can be chosen to be case sensitive or not.

Extend

When Extend checkbox is checked the selection is extended instead of generating a new one.