Description

This command enables you to identify and select all the objects of a named type or types in your scene.

Using no options deselects all other objects first, then selects only the named types.

selectByType provides the ability to do things like:

Select all solvers to activate or deactivate them,or
Select all constraints to reset them, or
Select all bones to cutKeys and clear the animation from them.

Functional area

Selection

Command syntax

Syntax

selectByType [-a] [-r] [-childOf string]

Arguments

Name	Type	Required	Comments
`Type`	string	yes	The type of module to select.

Flags

Name	Flag arguments	Argument type	Exclusive to	Comments
`a`	0	—	r	—
`r`	0	—	a	—
`childOf`	1	string		Only selects modules that are children of this module name.

Return value

void

Examples

// These commands select all the Bone modules in your 
// scene, and then remove all the animation from those modules 
// resetting the skeleton(s) to the base pose.
selectByType Bone;
cutKeys -all;