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Activating and Deactivating Constraints

You can temporarily deactivate a constraint and reactivate it later. You can do this by accessing the constraint's property editor using the explorer or the viewport.

You can also use the dopesheet (see Deactivating (Muting) Animation in the Dopesheet) or the constraint query in the spreadsheet to activate or deactivate a constraint.

To activate or deactivate a constraint via its property editor

Open the constraint's property editor and toggle its Active option.

To activate or deactivate a constraint via the explorer

Right-click a constraint's icon and toggle the Active command.

NoteYou cannot activate or deactivate all multiple-selected constraints at one time. Only the constraint on which you right-click is activated or deactivated.

To activate or deactivate all constraints for an object

Right-click the Constraints folder in the explorer and choose Activate or Deactivate to do so for all constraints in that folder.

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