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Create and edit sets
Organize objects
Annotate and measure
Keep a collection of sets from having overlapping membership
Partitions lets you group sets together
while ensuring that the sets do not share members.
To
create a partition
- Use
the Outliner or Relationship
Editor to select the sets you want to go in the new partition.
- Select
Create > Sets > Partition.
The sets in the partition are now prevented
from having overlapping membership.
To
create a new set in a partition
- Select
the items you want to go in the new set.
- Select
Create > Sets > Set > .
- Do
one of the following:
- To
add the set to a partition only if it’s already exclusive (that
is, it doesn’t overlap with any of the sets in the partition), click Only
If Exclusive.
- To
add the set to a partition and remove any members that are already
in other sets in the partition, click By Making Exclusive.
- Select
the name of the partition to add this set to from the Partition pop-up
menu.
- Click Apply and Close.
If you chose Only If Exclusive and
the set overlaps sets in the partition, Maya does not add the set
to the partition and a warning appears on the status line.
To
edit the membership of a partition
- Select
Window > Relationship Editors >
Partitions.
- On
the left side, click the partition you want to add to.
- On
the right side, click to highlight the sets you want in the partition.
You can also select the sets you want to add
to a partition in the Outliner,
and then in the Relationship Editor’s left
side menus select Edit > Add Selected Items.
To
remove a set from a partition
- Select
Window > Relationship Editors >
Partitions.
- On
the left side, click the plus icon to next to the partition name
to show its contents.
- Click
the set you want to remove.
- In
the Relationship Editor’s left
side menus select Edit > Remove Highlighted From Partition.
To
delete a partition
- Select
Window > Relationship Editors >
Partitions.
- Select
the partition and press .
Deleting the partition does not delete its member
sets.