8. Groups Panel

The Groups panel lets you organise your scene into groups, gives you alternative means to select and hide objects, and is also used to prepare models for certain sculpting operations.

Drag the left mouse over the 'eye' or 'freeze' icons of several objects to hide/show freeze/unfreeze multiple at once.

To make a group drag from one object's name to over another object's name. The dragged from item becomes a child of the dragged to item.

You can right click on the parent of a group to close the group and hide the children from the groups list. A closed group has a + while an open group has a -.

Moving the parent in a 3D view will move all the children too. Likewise you can copy and paste the parent to duplicate the whole group.

Several menu commands require a group to be setup first - these tend to include "Group", "Parent", or "Child" in the name.

When you have more objects than will fit in the list view, use the mouse wheel to scroll, or drag with the left mouse on the far right side of the list box to scroll.