You will often need to cut the hierarchical links between a parent and its child or children in a hierarchy of objects. If the child is also a parent, the links to its own children are not affected.
A cut object becomes a child of its model. If an object is cut from its model, it becomes a child of the parent model.
To cut an object from its parent
1. Select the object you want to detach from its parent.
2. Do one of the following:
- Click the Cut button in the Constrain panel.
or
- Press Ctrl+/
or
- In the explorer, drag and drop the child to another node.
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