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title: "Add UV Pins"
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section_path: "The UV Editor and Its Tools - An Introduction > Add UV Pins"
description: "This allows you to lock the points of selected UV points, edges or polygons so that they cannot be moved by transformation tools or functions such as UV …"
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# Add UV Pins

This allows you to lock the points of selected UV points, edges or polygons so that they cannot be moved by transformation tools or functions such as **UV Unwrap and Relax**. Defining points as *Pins* is therefore useful for all areas of an existing UV unwrap that should remain unchanged, such as those parts that have already been perfectly aligned with a texture.

*Pins* can be indicated by a red marker, provided this has been enabled via the *UV Editor*’s Display menu. Pinning can also be temporarily toggled on and off using the **Use UV Pins** option. You’ll find this option in the icon bar above the *UV Editor*.

Points defined as *Pins* can also be selected in *Points* mode and then released from their fixed positions by executing the **Remove UV Pins** command. Alternatively, you can use the **Clear UV Pins** command to remove all *Pin* fixations at once.

![Image: UV_Tools_Add_Pins_01.png](https://help.maxon.net/c4d/en-us/Content/Resources/Images/UV_Tools_Add_Pins_01.png)\
On the left, you can see the red markers for points that have been pinned. On the right, the **Use UV Pins** option has been turned off. As a result, points with the Pin property are no longer pinned and are displayed in gray.