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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.