# Is There A Way to "Group" Bodies temporarily?

**URL:** <https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-group-bodies-temporarily/36575>\
**Category:** Modeling Questions\
**Created:** [February 16, 2025, 9:10pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-group-bodies-temporarily/36575 "2025-02-16T21:10:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![Bad\_at\_Cad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a88e4f/32.png) [@Bad\_at\_Cad](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Bad_at_Cad)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2025, 9:10pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-group-bodies-temporarily/36575/1 "2025-02-16T21:10:39Z")

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I am working on a design with lots of parts, and things keep getting out of alignment/position with each other as I make tweaks and whatnot. So my question is twofold:

A) is there a way to ‘group’ bodies (not permanently, as in “Union”) so that the relationships between them remains fixed?

Or, B) alternatively, is there a way to ‘lock’ bodies so they simply can’t be inadvertently altered/moved without having to ‘unlock’ them first?

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**Author:** ![arroniow](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.shapr3d.com/arroniow/32/30268_2.png) [@arroniow](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/arroniow)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2025, 9:15pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-group-bodies-temporarily/36575/2 "2025-02-16T21:15:08Z")

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If you place the bodies together in a group (folder) in the items sidebar.  
Then when you click on that group (folder) they all get selected.

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**Author:** ![TheBum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@TheBum](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/TheBum)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2025, 5:28pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-group-bodies-temporarily/36575/3 "2025-02-17T17:28:21Z")

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Doing this has the added benefit of being able to show and hide a group of bodies by simply showing or hiding the folder. Unfortunately, certain tools don’t work on a folder of objects (e.g. aligning multiple nested bodies to another body). We’d need a feature similar to the Fusion component for that.

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**Author:** ![Bad\_at\_Cad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a88e4f/32.png) [@Bad\_at\_Cad](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Bad_at_Cad)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2025, 9:40pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-group-bodies-temporarily/36575/4 "2025-02-17T21:40:49Z")

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I was sort of doing that in a bass-ackwards way-- highlinghting all the bodies I want to keep together, exporting as a parasolid, then reimporting-- which puts them in all one folder. That being said, while either of these do sort of group them, it doesn’t protect them from accidental alterations.

I really think there should be a lock feature for bodies that can be selected to prevent them from moving or being manipulated in any way.