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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] If you're working on a scene with many objects and you just want to focus on one thing, you can either isolate the object, which will hide everything else, or you can lock the selection so that you can't select anything else. Let's look at isolate first. All you have to do is just select something, such as this group, and then at the bottom of the interface is a button labeled Isolate Selection. Looks like a little cyan box with brackets around it. Click that button, and all the other objects are hidden, and the perspective view zooms in to the current selection. The other views do not zoom. Okay, we can turn that back off again to un-isolate that selection. The keyboard shortcut to isolate a selection is alt + q. I can select something and hit alt + q on the keyboard, and that object is isolated. There's actually a separate hotkey to disable Isolate Selection. If we try to hit alt + q again, nothing…

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