I can’t edit properties of multiple objects with ‘Alt’ selected

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May 1, 2023 at 3:30 pm #16297
steveeger
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Aroung the 8 minute mark you say to press the ‘Alt’ key to change multiple values. ‘Alt’ key prevents any value from being changed instead of allowing multiple values to change. Without the ‘Alt’ key being pressed only the active element is affected. With ‘Alt’ nothing can be changed.
May 1, 2023 at 5:00 pm #78882
Omar Domenech
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You may be using Emulate 3 Button Mouse, that basically gets a hold of the Alt key. Try turning it off and see if Alt works after that:
May 1, 2023 at 8:09 pm #78883
steveeger
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Yes! That’s it, thank you!
May 2, 2023 at 2:48 am #78884
Martin Bergwerf
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…and, if you want both, you can use the OS key, to emulate and have the ALT key free:
May 2, 2023 at 7:07 am #78885
Omar Domenech
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Oh nice, I didn’t know that. That should be the default.
May 2, 2023 at 1:41 pm #78886
steveeger
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Which version of Blender are you using? 3.5 doesn’t seem to have that OS-Key option.
May 2, 2023 at 1:45 pm #78887
Omar Domenech
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I’m using 3.5.0 and I can see it in this one:
May 3, 2023 at 12:11 am #78888
Martin Bergwerf
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@steveeger ,

Maybe you can’t see it, because you need to enable the Emulate 3 Button Mouse first…???

The feature has been around for quite a while now; in the earlier versions it was visible at all times, like in 2.83, but maybe in more recent versions they changed that…

As you can see in Omar’s first screenshot, it wasn’t there, but in his second one, it was…

…Or wait, the first one was from Windows and the second from MacOS….
May 3, 2023 at 12:27 am #78889
Martin Bergwerf
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Okay, found it:
May 3, 2023 at 7:06 am #78890
Omar Domenech
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Nice catch Martin. Now we know. Another tiny thing Mac users get for a better user experience.
May 2, 2024 at 9:32 pm #78891
Nathi Tappan
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But we don’t get the extra juicy graphics card… 😉

Unfortunately the OS key is too far off the way for my small hand with bad tendons, so I found another way around it (in case it can be used to someone): apply the change once, then select all others, right click and copy to selected.
June 27, 2025 at 1:21 pm #78892
Ethan ⚡️
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@nathitappan Excellent suggestion. This legit might be the best approach outright — in lieu of having to commit a shortcut trick to memory, haha.
June 27, 2025 at 1:27 pm #78893
Nathi Tappan
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@CypherPoet fair! Though I’ll be honest… That was a real long time ago and I ended up forcing myself to get used to the OS Key instead and freeing up my option key. Far too many uses for opt in Blender and I was missing them all. Particularly in rigging. I think that’s when I decided I had to get used to it.

So both work, but a year later I changed my mind: OS key for the win.
June 27, 2025 at 1:30 pm #78894
Ethan ⚡️
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@nathitappan Nice! Sometimes, I like the explicit and declarative nature on context menus — but fair enough, indeed 😀
June 27, 2025 at 6:08 pm #78895
Dwayne Savage
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Additional information for Y’all. Select the The fields like normal(Single is click, multiple is click drag) Then enter value and press alt+enter. This work in both emulate middle mouse button and no emulation.
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