Lock

Toolbar	Menu	Shortcut
Lock Popup Standard Visibility SubD Sidebar	Edit Visibility > Lock	Ctrl (CMD) + L

Toolbar

Shortcut

Edit

Visibility >

Lock

Ctrl (CMD) + L

The Lock command sets the state of selected objects so they can be seen and snapped to, but cannot be selected for editing.

You cannot select locked objects.
You can snap to locked objects.
Use the Layer dialog box to lock all objects on a layer.
SubD control points, edit points, and vertices can be locked and unlocked.

Steps

Select objects to lock, and press Enter.

To access hidden command-line options

Type a hyphen in front of the command name: -Lock.
Name of object set to lock
Enter the name of a set of objects to lock.

Related commands

Unlock

Toolbar	Menu	Shortcut
Lock Visibility SubD Sidebar Popup Standard	Edit Visibility > Unlock	Ctrl (CMD) + Alt + L

Toolbar

Shortcut

Edit

Visibility >

Unlock

Ctrl (CMD) + Alt + L

The Unlock command unlocks all locked objects.

SubD control points, edit points, and vertices can be locked and unlocked.

To access command-line options

Type a hyphen in front of the command name: -Unlock.
Name of object set to unlock
Enter the name of a set of locked objects.

UnlockSelected

Toolbar	Menu	Shortcut
Lock Visibility	Edit Visibility > Unlock Selected	Ctrl (CMD) + Shift + L

Toolbar

Shortcut

Toolbar: Lock | Visibility

Lock
Visibility

Edit

Visibility >

Unlock Selected

Ctrl (CMD) + Shift + L

The UnlockSelected command unlocks selected locked objects.

LockSwap

Toolbar	Menu
Lock Visibility	Edit Visibility > Swap Lock and Unlocked

Toolbar

Toolbar: Lock | Visibility

Lock
Visibility

Edit

Visibility >

Swap Lock and Unlocked

The LockSwap command locks all unlocked objects and unlocks all previously locked objects.

IsolateLock

Toolbar	Menu
Lock Visibility	Not on menus.

Toolbar

Toolbar: Lock | Visibility

Lock
Visibility

Not on menus.

The IsolateLock command locks all objects except the currently selected object.

UnisolateLock

Toolbar	Menu
Visibility	Not on menus.

Toolbar

Toolbar: Visibility

Visibility

Not on menus.

The UnisolateLock command unlocks all objects locked by the IsolateLock command.

Lock

Steps

To access hidden command-line options

Related commands

Unlock

To access command-line options

UnlockSelected

LockSwap

IsolateLock

UnisolateLock

See also

Snapshots