Group objects in blender

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Hello,

Is there a way to create a group of object in blender. Let say I create a table foot made out of different elements and then I group it so that when I move one of the element it move them all. At the moment I can use parent to object but I need to move the appropriate one in order to move all of them.

Another solution I found is creating an empty at the place I want, parent everything to that empty and then make the object parented unselectable to be sure I don’t modify the group. Is there another easier way to do?

Thanks

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Make them there own collection maybe? That way you could select the colection, press G to move all of them?

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Is there a shortcut to select an entire collection or should I manually go in the hierarchy and right click select all object?

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You can assign a shortcut to the select all button via right click assign shortcut and pressing a designated key on the keyboard. but for some reason it isnt working on my end.

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You can use Mirror Modifier, if the foot objects are mirrors of each other.
Mirror now works so you can add mirror X,Y to a single foot and then select any of the 4 to move. Rotate and scale work like it is standard mesh.