Select Parents

This command selects the parents of each selected object.

The keyboard shortcut for Select Parents is Ctrl+U (Windows) or z+U (Mac). (Think “Up the family tree.”)

The parents of an object are those objects upon which the object directly depends. For example, a segment’s parents are the endpoints used to define it; a midpoint’s parent is the segment on which it’s constructed.

If the selected object has no parents (in other words, if it’s an independent object), it remains selected. If the parents of the selected object are hidden, the selected object is deselected (leaving nothing selected).