Learn Blender 3 - Object Selection

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• Select box top left toolbar
  • Can click objects in the scene.
    • As you click last selection will be gone.
  • Can box select.
    • If you click and hold the selection button
      there will be options
      • Select
        • You can click and drag with this one
      • Select Box
        • Make a box to select
        • Hotkey b
          • Middle mouse button exclude what is
            inside it.
      • Select Circle
        • Paint and select what was hit
        • Click and hold the left mouse button and
          scroll the middle mouse wheel to increase or decrese the radius
        • Hotkey c
          • Temporarily puts in select circle mode
          • Hold Shift + left mouse click to deselect object
      • Select Lasso
        • Make a lasso to select.
        • Ctrl + Right click mouse button to add to selection
        • Ctrl + Shift + Right click mouse button to remove from selection
  • Click in empty space to deselect all.
• To add objects to the selection, hold the shift key.
  • Shift key toggles selection.
• When multiple objects are selected, the last object
  selected is yellow selected. The others are orange.
  • The yellow object is the active object.
• Only one object can be active at a time.
  • To change the active object, hold the shift key
    and click the object you want to be the active
    object.
  • Some commands take into account what is the active object.
• To remove an object from selection, it first have to
  be an active object. Shift key and right mouse button
  click on the object you want to deselect. If it wasn't
  the active object, it will become the active object.
  If you press shift key right click button again on the
  selected object, it will no longer be selected.
• To select all objects
  • Hotkey a
• To deselect all objects
  • Press Hotkey a a twice, fast.
  • Hotkey Alt + a
• Can select in outliner
  • Left mouse button to select.
    • To deselect: Shift + left mouse button click to
  • Press hotkey b in outliner to box select.