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I just got the script extensions yesterday, and I have been looking through the manual and have a few questions: 1) Is there a way to select an object and create a specific number of copies (like create/array does) 2) Is it real difficult to create a menu that would allow me to select objects by wild card and tag them? I have a script that uses the PickObjects menu, but this is only useful for picking all objects or a few dozen. Is something like this around somewhere I can grab it from? I cringe at the thought of doing it myself.