Replace Dialog

• Application Menu > Import > Replace

• When you replace an object in your scene, you replace its geometry, including its modifiers, but not its transforms, space warps, hierarchy, or materials.
• To replace the object with all its characteristics, use Merge.
• If the object that you're replacing has instances in the scene, all of the instances are replaced with the new object.
• All objects in the scene with the same name as the incoming object are replaced by that object. If you have more than one object in the scene with the same name as the incoming object, all of those objects are replaced.

When you choose Replace, a standard file selector dialog is displayed. Use the file selector to choose the scene file with the replacement objects. After you click Open, the Replace dialog is displayed.

Tip: In the file selector, you can see more than one file type at a time by choosing the All Files file type.

[search field]

Enter an object name to locate the object.

Find Case Sensitive

When on, distinguishes between upper and lower case in object names.

[object list]

Lists the objects in the scene.

All

Selects all objects in the list.

None

Deselects all objects in the list.

Invert

Inverts the current list selection.

Influences

Click to Select the influences of the currently selected object..

When the Select Influences toggle is on, influences are always selected.

Display Subtree

Displays object hierarchies in an indented format.

When this option is off, the Sort group is enabled.

Select Subtree

When this option is on, all items indented below the selected one are also selected.

Display Influences

When on and you highlight an object with influences, the names of the influential objects appear in blue.

Select Influences

When on and you highlight an object with influences, the influential objects are also selected.

The Influences button selects influential objects on a one-time basis.

Sort group

These are options for sorting the object list. If the Display Subtree checkbox is on, these options are not available.

• Alphabetical Sorts from A at the top to Z at the bottom.
• By Type Sorts by category, using the same order as the checkboxes in List Types.
• By Color Sorts by object wireframe color.

List Types group

Determines which object types are displayed in the list: geometry, shapes, lights, cameras, helpers, space warps, or bone objects.

All

Turns on all checkboxes in the group.

None

Turns off all checkboxes in the group.

Invert

Inverts the current state of the checkboxes.