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Selection Lock Toggle toggles selection locking on and off. Lock selections so you don't inadvertently select something else in a complex scene. When your selection is locked, you can drag the mouse anywhere on screen without losing your selection. The cursor displays the current selection icon. When you want to deselect or alter your selection, click Lock Selection again to turn off locked selection mode. When you want to select something and you can't, it's frequently because you have locked your selection. This button is off by default. Click to turn it on (it turns yellow). When Lock Selection is on, you can click anywhere in a viewport and the program interprets it as clicking the selected object(s). This is useful when you want to keep objects selected while you make a different viewport active or when the selection is tiny, or crowded and difficult to select. Procedures To transform an object without touching it: 1 Use the Selection Floater from the Tools menu, the Select By Name button on the main toolbar or press the H key to select the object by name. 2 Click the transform button (move, rotate, or scale) from the main toolbar. 3 On the status bar, turn on the Selection Lock toggle or press the Spacebar to lock the selection set. 4 Press and drag anywhere in the viewport. The object transforms even though you are not touching it. To avoid accidentally canceling a selection: 1 Make your object selection. 2 Click the Selection Lock toggle on the status line, or press Spacebar to turn on Locked Selection mode. To exit sub-object selection mode, do one of the following: 1 In the Modifier Stack display, choose the object level. 7540 | Chapter 25 User Interface