Ok; I'm in the second tutorial. The one with the globe and the airplane in the assembler. First thing it tells me to do is select the globe and move it. So I click on the mover tool that the tutorial is calling the select tool... I click on the globe and it just gives me one of it's rings... Which I can move fine but it leaves the other parts behind... So I try select all but that grabs the plane as well... So I figure maybe if I select all then shift-click the plane I can deselect it and leave the other elements.... no luck. So then I figure I can shift-click each and every single piece of the globe one by one and then move them all. But this risks missing some small hard to get to part. Is there an easy solution to this? Delete the plane, move to modeller and group it all, then move back to assembler and re-add the plane? That seems to make sense in my mind but I don't know how pratical doing it would be or if it would even work. I have yet to try this idea.

I messed with that same issue this morning. I had a model that imported with 56 seperate pieces. I did a Select All. It selected the model and the Light. I did a SHIFT Click on the light to de-select it. That left me with the model selected. I then Grouped the model into a single group. You should be able to de-select the plane with SHIFT Click. Try to Zoom out of the window some and then try the SHIFT Click on the plane to try and de-select it. Then you can Group the globe into one object for easier manipulation. Let me know if you still can de-select that plane after zooming out a bit. Clint

Odd. When I SHIFT Click on the plane it de-selects everything. Not just the plane. I won't be able to re-test it until late this evening when I get home though... I work on a Mac during the day and a PC at home.

Go to the sequencer tray and click on the arrow next to globe (or any other object you import) it should combine the elements of the globe so that it can be moved. The sequencer tray is on the bottom.

Yeah I found that to work finally. :) The tutorial makes it seem like you can just grab them all with the mover arrow. Which of course does not work. Even after using select all I was losing it and just getting one object everytime I'd tried to move it. So I used the sequencer finally to select and group things. As opposed to the tutorials advice. :)

I got stuck on that one also. Glad I could help.