Thanks so much Michael! HUGE help :-) I'm working on this med drone and the objects list are getting so large!
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Hi Chipp, you're welcome - wow that drone is turning out great!

- Michael

Hi Chipp - also another way to do what you were looking for just occurred to me.

You can select named objects by typing in their names in the X/Y/Z input control, and you can wildcards in the name like for example typing in *wheel would select anything anything with a name that ends with "wheel", and if you just put in plain * there that will match all named objects.

So another way is to type the tab key (which puts focus in the X/Y/Z input control), then type * and push Enter, now all named objects are selected and you can hide them using Edit > Hide.

- Michael

Wow. Didn't know you could do that. Thanks for sharing. I prefer the script, but will use this as a way to select ALL common parts-- sorta like a cheap man's hierarchy tool where you can name each set of parts with a prefix and then select the correct groups.

I was wanting to create a mannequin for positioning in MoI but didn't have a good way to control easily many groups at once. This technique should do the trick!