Fatal error attempting to save …

When closing Maya the application throws a fatal error and crashes Maya entirely. Normally if you save your scene before trying to close Maya you don’t lose any work despite the crash but having to relaunch Maya at every scene change can be time consuming.

Align all vertices on a line

Often times when using the multi cut tool to add edges to a polygon you end up with poorly aligned vertices…

Select many objects by name

Steps using the outliner

Step 1) Open Outline

Why do objects disappear on zoom out?

Near and far clipping planes are imaginary planes located at two particular distances from…

Rotate a pivot to align with an edge

Using the “Center Pivot” option will not always give you the desired or expected pivot rotation…

Maya viewport keeps freezing up

You might be wondering, how could Maya be freezing up with one simple cube in the scene, what could it…

Move freezed objects back to world coordinate 0,0,0

Center Pivot on many objects all at once

A situation where this could be needed is when importing external data for example from…

View through an object in shaded mode

You will often be modelling scenes or objects that reside inside another object. Your few options to see inside that outer object is to either hide it, or go to wireframe or x ray mode. This article explores an alternative method.

Creating a planar UV on a custom axis

Sometimes along the way you may end up having your pivot and axis for your object our of sync with the world. In that case how can you create a planar UV for that object?