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  • Published 25 Apr 2019

Select Grouped / Collections

If we want to use collections as some kind of grouping - I think this is the reason for collections - we want to select the objects within. OK. In outliner you can right-click a collection and choose "Select objects". This automatically selects all objects within the collection including all sub collections and their objects. If in 3D-View we select any object and shift+G opens a menu where we select "Collection". This only selects the sibling objects within the collection. There you see a different behaviour which is not obvious! So my proposal: Give the "Select Grouped" tweaking box (see thumb) two more options:

  1. a depth parameter where you decide the selection depth of collections. Default would be 1
  2. and an all or infinite checkmark to override the depth and easily select all objects within all child collections.

Select Grouped Collection Depth.png

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Development Status: Open

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eno.kahl
25 Apr 2019

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Depth 0 should be infinity. This is consistent with other behaviour in Blender (for example sampling) and makes that button redundant and allows for an elegant default value.

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eno.kahl Author

* @alf * OK, but please let it say "infinite" not "0" because of readability