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  • Layer manager won’t hide children of a null

    Posted by David Fleury on October 10, 2017 at 3:25 pm

    I have a LOT of different sweeps going on and I have grouped them into nulls to stay orgaqnized and put the different nulls on layers so I could turn them off in the view port. Won’t work. I need to drill down and assign everything inside of the null to the layer individually to turn them off. What am I missing? Or is this the way the layer manger works? This is not very efficient if in fact this is the correct functionality.

    Please tell me I am missing something obvious! Thanks in advance.
    Dave

    David Fleury replied 8 years, 7 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  • Jim Scott

    October 10, 2017 at 5:17 pm

    As far as I can tell that is the normal functionality of the Layer Manager. To avoid “drilling down” to select each object inside of a null individually, right click on the null and choose “Select Children.” Then you can either right click on it again and choose “Add to New Layer,” or right click in the Layer Manager window and choose “New Layer from Object Selection,” or select an already existing layer in the Layer Manager, right click on it and choose “Add Objects to Layer.”

    Hope this helps.

  • Adam Trachtenberg

    October 10, 2017 at 8:43 pm

    Also, if you hold down Ctrl when dragging a null to a layer all objects (and tags) will be added to the layer.

  • David Fleury

    October 10, 2017 at 9:15 pm

    Both of these solutions work! Thanks guys.

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