Selecting Parent with Properties panel fails when Attachment is selected with parts

This is a multi-part bug where several behaviors come together to create an unpleasant experience:

  • click+dragging to select in the 3D view will select Attachments, regardless of their position in the hierarchy
  • Reparenting a selection attempts to reparent all selected objects to the new parent
  • Attachments are not allowed to be parented to non-parts
  • click+dragging a selection to a new parent in Explorer will show a message, but complete the operation successfully and fail:
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  • setting the parent of a selecting using the Properties pane and selecting the new parent will show this message, and the operation will fail:
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The combination of these behaviors make the default studio tool infeasable to use if you want to use Attachments in your builds, as reparenting selections becomes a chore. The only time I use default studio tools over build plugins is this one feature, which is useless because of Attachments.

Observed: cannot change parent of selections that include Attachments when click+dragging in the 3D view

Expected: can do the above

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