Autodesk Maya

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?

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…

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…

Why do objects disappear on zoom out?

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

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…

Rotate a pivot to align with an edge

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

Select many objects by name

Steps using the outliner

Step 1) Open Outline