Recently I did a job that I had to deal with lots of objects in my Object Manager. Even renaming everything, it was easy to get lost sometimes. The big problem that I was having was to select an object in the Viewport and then have to search for it in the Object Manager. I already knew about the “Scroll to First Active” button, but it was a bit waste of time have to go every time to the menu and click on it.

Doing some Google search I found that you can create a hotkey for that, wich was so handy to me.

- All you need to do is go to Script -> Script Manager (Cinema 4D R13) or Window -> Script Manager (Cinema 4D  R12)
- In the Script Manager window, go to File -> New, set a name and paste this code: CallCommand(100004769);

- Then, hit the Shortcut… button and assign the keys that  you want to trigger the action.

That’s it, you will see how this little tip could improve your work speed.

 ** UPDATE **

There is no need to create a script to assign  a shortcut to Scroll to First Active, since there is already an option for it in “Customize Commands… (R13)” or “Command Manager (R12)”, go straight there.