This is one of my most useful tools that I use. I originally created when working on Pacific Rim 2: Uprising but I've also been using it on Antman 2.

When dealing with assets made up of lot of separate components, especially with re partition it can be difficult to find certain objects or tedious to select them all. it might not be straight forward as particular pieces could be nested in a different [part of the hierarchy.

Maya has its own search and select tool but again I've never used it so i don't know what i can and can't do. 

As far as i know the benefits to using my tool is that you can do pythonic syntax to serach for items, eg: *balustrade_?_[1-9]*

also the other hand thing is that i can select 3 different objects/objects with different naming conventions all at once. eg: *books*_geo

      *railing?_geo*

      *group42|lamp_??_geo*

 

At the moment the [seq] search part isn't working, but should be a simple fix for me, I'll try to update it soon.