Document Explorer Panel
- The Document Explorer Panel lists the Objects of a Document in alphabetical order.
- By default, the Objects of the Active Document will be displayed, unless the Document Explorer is locked to a specific Document via its Options menu.
- One Document Explorer panel instance is docked by default in the upper right area of the startup UI layour, above the Object Properties panel.
- Multiple Document Explorer instances can be created using the Main Menu > Panels > DOCUMENT EXPLORER - Create New Panel menu item, for example to lock them to and display the objects of multiple Documents at the same time.
- Selecting an object in a Document Explorer locked to a particular Document will also activate the Viewport associated with that Document, if any.
Document Explorer Display
- The Document Explorer displays
- The Document Color and Document Name with an arrow icon in front to collapse/expand the display of the Document’s objects tree.
- The Names of the Objects in the Document, sorted alphabetically, indented to the right and prefixed by an Object Type icon.
- The Operators of each Object (if any) in a collapsed sub-list beneath the Object, e.g. Mesh Reduction under a Mesher object.
- The Animation of each Object (if any) in a collapsed sub-list beneath the Object.
- Hidden objects will be drawn in darker color and in Italic font.
Filtering The Document Explorer Display
- The text field above the Document Explorer tree can be used to filter the display.
- Typing a search pattern will perform case-insensitive search for any part of the object name, for example
- Typing “lo” will perform search for the pattern “*lo*” and list both Point Loaders and Mesh Loaders with default names since both contain that sub-string.
- Documents that do not contain any filtered objects will not be displayed, in this example the Blue document Untitled 3 was hidden:
Document Explorer Left-Click Behavior
- Left-clicking an object in the Document Explorer will select the object, updating the selection in the Viewport, and any selection-centric panels including Object Properties, Transforms, etc.
- Double-clicking an object will both select the object and focus the active Viewport on it by performing the Zoom Extents command also available via the Toolbar, Z key, and the right-click menu (see below).
- Left-clicking and holding the left mouse button will let you move the mouse to swipe-select multiple objects at once.
- Holding down the CTRL key lets you add and remove individula objects to / from the selection.
- Holding down the SHIFT key lets you block-select from the first clicked to the last clicked object.