Actions menu
The Actions menu shows actions that are available in your current context.
💻 | Right click in the viewport to open the Actions menu. |
🥽 | Use the top button of the support hand to open the Actions menu. |
Actions
Options at the top of the Actions menu are those most commonly used to manage layers. The following actions are available:
Selecting a group that contains multiple layers will make the actions below affect all the layers within that group.
Actions
In order from left to right:
Action | Context |
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Create a new layer. | Always available |
Duplicate selection. The Select tool has shortcuts to quickly duplicate a selection without the Actions menu. | Requires one or more layers to be selected. |
Currently Inactive | |
Unlink selected objects. This converts selected instances into standard objects. This does not break all related links, if 2 or more unselected layers are linked to a selected object, this will not break the link between the unselected objects. | Requires one or more instances to be selected. |
Flip selection. | Requires one or more layers to be selected. |
Delete selection. | Requires one or more layers to be selected. |
Grouping
Learn more about Grouping and scene structure here.
In order from left to right:
Action | Context |
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Group selection. | Requires one or more layers to be selected. |
Ungroup selection. | Requires one or more groups to be selected. All selected groups will be ungrouped. |
Merge selection. | Requires more than 1 layer to be selected. |
Resolution
In order from left to right:
Action | Context |
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Increase resolution of selection. | Requires one or more layers to be selected. |
Decrease resolution of selection. | Requires one or more layers to be selected. |
Match resolution of selection to another layer. | Requires one or more layers to be selected. |
Symmetry and Repetition
You can learn more about Symmetry, Repetition, and Locking here.
Symmetry
Action | Context |
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Toggle Mirror symmetry. | Requires layer scope. |
Toggle Radial symmetry. | Requires layer scope. |
Set number of radial duplicates. | Requires layer scope and Radial symmetry must be enabled. |
Repetition
Action | Context |
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Toggle Mirror repetition. | Requires group or scene scope. |
Toggle Radial repetition. | Requires group or scene scope. |
Set number of radial duplicates. | Requires group or scene scope and Radial repetition must be enabled. |
Locking
Action | Context |
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Toggle Mirror Lock. | Always available. |
Toggle Radial Lock. | Always available. |
Visibility
Action | Context |
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Hide Selection. | Always available, but no impact unless an object is selected. |
Show all - unhide all hidden objects. | Always available, but no impact unless objects are hidden. |
Boolean
Learn more about Booleans here.
Action | Context |
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Begin Union boolean operation. | Requires one or more selected objects. |
Begin Difference boolean operation. | Requires one or more selected objects. |
Begin Intersection boolean operation. | Requires one or more selected objects. |