Selecting and Deselecting Hierarchies

You can double-click an object to select and deselect that object and all of its descendants.

You can customize the quad menu so it displays commands to select children, or ancestors, or both. From the Customize menu, choose Customize User Interface. On the Quads tab, drag Select Ancestor or Select Children from the list of all commands to the quad menu. Then you can easily select children or parents with a right-click.

Enable Select Subtree to select hierarchies in the Select Objects Dialog. When Select Subtree is enabled, click the name of an object to select the object and all its descendants You see the Select Objects Dialog when you choose Select By Name or by pressing H on the keyboard.

Once you have selected one or more objects in a hierarchy, you can navigate up and down the hierarchical tree using the PAGE UP and PAGE DOWN keys.

These navigation commands are particularly useful when setting joint parameters for inverse kinematics.