Creating parent-child relationships

To create parent-child relationships between objects in your scene, you can use either the Schematic view in the Viewer window, or you can use the Scene browser.

In the Scene browser:

1. Alt-drag the object to be parented and drop it on top of another object.
2. Select Parent from the context menu that appears.

To add additional objects to the selection. Ctrl-click them, then drag the selection to the parent object.

In the Viewer window:

1. Switch to Schematic view (Ctrl-W).

2. Press P to activate Parent mode.

3. Double-click the node representing the object you want to select as a child. To add additional objects to the selection, Ctrl-click the corresponding nodes.

4. Drag the selection to the parent object’s node.

   A dotted line joins a parent and its selected child objects, and the parent object is highlighted. The parent is connected to the selected children, and the objects are rearranged in a hierarchy.

   For example, the following figure illustrates two cubes before and after parenting in the Schematic view.

   

   A. Before parenting B. After parenting, Cube 1 is the child of Cube.

   Note: You can create more complex parent-child relationships with constraints. See Work with Parent-child constraints.