Locking, Soloing, or Hiding Objects

Locking Selection

You can lock the selection to the currently selected nodes. Locking a node selection ensures you can only edit and manipulate that selection and nothing else.

Alt-Space-L toggles between selection lock and unlock.

Soloing Objects

Use the Solo button to hide all other objects except the selected object. Using Solo is useful for identifying an object in a scene with many objects, without having to hide all of the other objects.

To solo an object:

1. In the schematic, select the object that you want to solo.
2. Enable Solo (on the right side of the Action menu).

   All other objects in the scene are hidden, regardless of whether they are set to Hide or not. When Solo is disabled, the Hide settings are restored.

   Tip: You can leave Solo enabled and select different objects in the schematic to view each object separately.

To solo a branch:

1. In the schematic, Alt+click the parent of the branch that you want to solo.
2. Enable Solo (on the right side of the Action menu).

   All other objects in the scene are hidden, regardless of whether they are set to Hide or not. When Solo is disabled, the Hide settings are restored.

Hiding Objects

You can temporarily hide an object or objects in the schematic to see different results, for example.

To hide an object or objects:

1. Select and object or multiple objects in the schematic view.
2. Click Hide, or right-click the object, and choose Hide.

   (hidden) appears after the object name in the schematic.

3. To unhide the object, click Hide again, or right-click the object and select Show.