Group, duplicate & delete
The three housekeeping moves that keep scenes tidy, and the shortcuts worth committing to muscle memory.
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Three small operations do most of the organizing in 3dCMS. Select one or more objects, then:
| Action | Key | What happens |
|---|---|---|
| Group | G | Wraps your selection in a new Group node. Move/rotate/scale the group and everything inside follows. Groups can nest. |
| Duplicate | D | Makes a copy alongside the original (named "… copy"), then selects the copy so you can move it. |
| Delete | Delete / Backspace | Removes the selection (and a group's children with it). Undoable. |
All three are also in the Edit menu, on the Scene Tree row buttons, and in the right-click context menu. Right-clicking one object of a multi-selection keeps the whole set, so Delete, Group, Duplicate and Align / Distribute there act on everything you had selected.
Copy and paste
Ctrl+C / Ctrl+V copy and paste the selection, groups and their contents included. A paste lands under the same parent the copy came from when that parent still exists, so a sign copied inside a page stays in that page (and its neighborhood). Pasting into a different scene, where the parent is gone, places the copy at the world position the original had when you copied it.
A duplicated or pasted page gets its own slug right away (about becomes about-2, then about-3), so two pages never share an address and publishing never has to rename one behind your back.