Creating your own selection sets with Named Selections

In most scenes, you will have certain objects you select often. Quick access to these is very important. Also, some objects can be hard to directly select if they are surrounded by or covered by others.

By default, the H key is reserved for the Select by Name option, but if you take up the free script Outliner, you may have to change that. You can also use Named Selections, which lets you create a hot list of entries of your own. This rolls down from the main toolbar, as shown in the following screenshot, where it says Sky:

The icons for managing objects include Remove (which removes a list or objects from a list; it doesn't remove them from the scene), Select Objects in Set (which works if you don't have them selected to start with), and Highlight Selected Objects (which shows in the list the items currently selected in the scene if they belong to a given Named Selection Set). They are highlighted in blue.