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>&#13;	To create a group of objects, you must first make one
	of them the <I
CLASS="emphasis"
>parent</I
> of the others.
	To do so, select at least two objects, press <B
CLASS="keycap"
>CTRL-P</B
>, and 
	confirm on the dialog <TT
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>Make Parent?</TT
>. The 
	<I
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>active</I
>
	object will be made the parent of all the others. The center of
	all children is now linked to the center of the parent by a dashed line.
	At this point, grabbing, rotating, and scaling the parent will do the same to 
	the children
	being grabbed, rotated and scaled likewise.
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>&#13;	Parenting
	is a very important tool with many advanced applications, as we'll see in 
	later chapters.
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>&#13;	Press <B
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>SHIFT-G</B
> with an active object
	to see the Group Selection menu
	(<A
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		<TT
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>Children</TT
> - Selects all the active objects' 
		children, and
		the children's children, up to the last generation.
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		<TT
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>Immediate Children</TT
> - Selects all the active 
		objects'
		children but not these latter's children.
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		<TT
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>Parent</TT
> - Selects the parent of the active object.
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		<TT
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>Objects on shared layers</TT
> - This actually has 
		nothing to
		do with parents. It selects all objects on the same layer(s)
		of the active object.
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>Figure 3. Group Select</B
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>&#13;	Move the child to the parent by clearing its origin (select
	it and press <B
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>ALT-O</B
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>&#13;	Remove a parent relation via <B
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>ALT-P</B
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	(<A
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		<TT
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>Clear parent</TT
> - Frees the children, which return 
		to their
		<I
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>original</I
> location, rotation, and size.
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>&#13;	<TT
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>Clear parent...and keep transform</TT
> - Frees the children,
		and <I
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>keeps</I
> the location, rotation, and size 
		given
		to them by the parent.
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		<TT
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>Clear parent inverse</TT
> - Places the children with 
		respect to the parent as if they were placed in the
		Global reference. This effectively clears the parent's 
		transformation
		from the children.
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