## CollectionItem

Object Hierarchy

### Introduced

v1.0

### Description

The CollectionItem represents a object in the scene, or a SubComponent selection on such an object. This serves as a default object when no specific object has been created in the Object Model, for example see XSICollection.Item. Many Softimage commands return the CollectionItem object. This object is also returned by Selection.Item if SubComponents of a X3DObject have been selected.

### Methods

FindAttrib |  |  |

### Properties

Capabilities | Families | IsA | Name
Obj | PathItems | Selected | Singleton
SubComponent | SubElements | SubElements2 | Type
Value |  |  |

### Examples

#### VBScript Example

    Set oGuineaPig = CreatePrim( "Cylinder", "MeshSurface" )

    printInfo oGuineaPig

    ApplyOp "Twist", oGuineaPig

    Set oCollItem1 = CreateObject("XSI.CollectionItem")

    oCollItem1.Value = "cylinder"

    printInfo oCollItem1

    Set oCollItem2 = CreateObject("XSI.CollectionItem")

    oCollItem2.Value = "light"

    printInfo oCollItem2

    Set oCollItem3 = CreateObject("XSI.CollectionItem")

    oCollItem3.Value = "camera"

    printInfo oCollItem3

    '==================================================

    function printInfo( in_object )

    	LogMessage in_object.Name & " (" _

    			& in_object.Type & " " _

    			& TypeName(in_object) & ")"

    end function

    '==================================================

    ' OUTPUT:

    'INFO : "cylinder (polymsh X3DObject)"

    'INFO : "cylinder (polymsh CollectionItem)"

    'INFO : "light (light CollectionItem)"

    'INFO : "Camera (camera CollectionItem)"

### See Also

XSICollection siBranchFlag