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Using Isolate Selection and Lock Selection

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Using Isolate Selection and Lock Selection

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- [Instructor] An important aspect of scene management is the ability to isolate what you're working on, either by hiding everything that you're not working on or making it impossible to select anything else. And these are known as Isolate Selection and Lock Selection. If I select, for example, this sofa group, I can make that the only object visible in my scene, and that's accomplished from this icon here at the bottom of the 3DS Max interface. It's a little bit of a obscure icon. It's called Isolate Selection, and it looks kind of like a plane with a little cube or box on it. If we click on that, then whatever is currently selected will still be visible. Everything else in the scene will be hidden, so that's isolate selection. If we hover the mouse, we'll see there's a keyboard shortcut for that, which is Alt+Q, and that'll isolate or unisolate. So I'll hold down Alt, press the Q key, and now everything else is displayed. Also, if you look really closely at that icon, you'll see…

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