Cutting Links in a Hierarchy

You will often need to cut the hierarchical links between a parent and its child or children in a hierarchy of objects. If the child is also a parent, the links to its own children are not affected.

A cut object becomes a child of its model. If an object is cut from its model, it becomes a child of the parent model or the scene root.

To cut an object from its parent

Select the object you want to detach from its parent.
Do one of the following:
- Click the Cut button in the Constrain panel.
  
  or
- Press Ctrl+/
  
  or
- In the explorer, drag and drop the child to another node.