Couple of things

I managed to add a menu shortcut using the customize toolboxes, but when I click on the icon, it only displays the attributes popup, and the icons and text description are not right.

I tried to add a custom shortcut, but it appears as “attribute” instead of being labeled as the cloned or clone, as it was named in the menu. I haven’t tested the shortcut yet.

I have two objects, one blue and the other magenta, each with its clone. When I select only one cloned object, say blue, the clone command selects parent clones of blue and magenta. Not sure if this is how it’s supposed to work. I would expect to select only blue parent clone only.

By the way, in Mac, Command+D to duplicate, and Option+D to clone. I don’t recall changing the shortcuts. Perhaps I did, and I need to check on that.

Hope cloning of parent object instead of cloned ones could be addressed.

Thanks.

I am a bit confused because Option+D usual dont create any clones
its just duplicate objects. But i guess you have changed the duplicate mode
to clones.

+Shift+Ctrl+D at least on windows will create clones.

Here how to select the original

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Here how to select the clones