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Table of contents

1 Interface overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

About

Working in Maya . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

3D coordinates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Maya’s Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Objects and components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Selection, tools, and actions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Main window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Menus and menu sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Marking menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Shelves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Maya Web browser plug-in . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Autodesk Maya Error Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

How do I?

Get help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Print the Maya Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Work with menu items, tools, and options . . . . . . . . 27

Select tools and actions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Set the options for a tool or menu item . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Select actions from marking menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Select actions from the hotbox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Select actions on a shelf. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Load the default shelves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Start Maya from the command line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Install the Maya Web browser plug-in . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

2 Selecting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

How do I?

Select objects or components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Select a node . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Select only certain types of objects or components

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(selection masks) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Save and reuse a selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Select objects based on hierarchy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Select components by painting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Change one type of selection to another . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Grow, shrink, or change the selected region of CVs or

3 Viewing the scene . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

How do I?

Move and rotate the camera . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Using the ViewCube . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Tumble, track, dolly, or tilt the view . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Use the mouse to control camera azimuth, elevation, yaw or pitch . 48

Center the view on selected or all objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Return to previous views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Change and resize panels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Change the panel layout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Create a window from the contents of a panel (tear off). . . . . . . . . . . 51

Control what camera is shown in a view . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Show, hide, or change the grid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Show information over top of a view (heads-up display) . . . . . . . . . . 52

Change the display of objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Change the look and smoothness of the selected objects . . . . . . . . . 53

Show or hide objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Show or hide components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Show or hide object-specific UI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Show an isolated subset of objects or components in a panel . . . . . 56

Change an object’s wireframe color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

4 Transforming objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

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polygon components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

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About

Transformations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

The pivot point . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

World space, object space, and local space . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Maya’s interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Construction history . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Construction planes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Copies vs. instances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

How do I?

Transform objects and components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Use manipulators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Lock a manipulator to the current selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Move, rotate, or scale objects and components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Move, rotate or scale components proportionally. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Use the Universal Manipulator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Move, rotate, or scale components with reflection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Change the pivot point . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Flip objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Transform along different axes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Set transformation values to zero . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Align and snap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Snap to the grid, a curve, points, or a view plane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Snap all creation tools to a surface or construction plane . . . . . . . . . 78

Align objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Position objects along a curve . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Snap one object to another . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Change history . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Undo, Redo, and Repeat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Edit completed commands (construction history) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Show a custom manipulator for the selected node . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Create and edit models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Create geometric primitives. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Create text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Edit objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

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