Top 10 Maya Hotkeys

In my first top 10 list, I take you through some of my favorite Maya hotkeys and show you how they greatly speed up some workflows, while making others even possible to begin with!

[aliciajavener]

You are literally a lifesaver dude I'm learning Maya for the first time and these shortcuts are going to save me so much time!!! 💕

[jesper_veber]

“Ctrl + Backspace” for deleting edges together with vertices (instead of Edit Mesh > Delete Edge/Vertex) is also the one I use quite often while modeling.

[ChaosWolfNinja]

Thank you! I love it! Over the years using Maya, Maya has quite a lot of hidden features that quite annoying to stumble upon and this tutorial brings them to light.

[Yoshermon]

A hotkey I find handy when trying to navigate the camera through intricate scenes or rotate it in place is Alt+X, which toggles the Walk Tool. Holding any of the mouse buttons will let you look around, rotating the camera without translating it, and scrolling on the mouse wheel will zoom in and out rather than move it forward and back. Holding a mouse button and pressing WASD will allow you to move around horizontally as if you were playing an FPS game, with the speed depending on which mouse button is held as well as the tool settings, while Q and E move you up and down.

[XFourty]

11:35 I remember a few years ago when my manipulators for a few things were super huge and I couldn't figure out why lmao.
Also, holy crap CTRL+P for a random color picker is extremely useful! Nice to know

[kostasfassoulas]

Awesome! What I needed!! Moving from Max to Maya, this is really handy! Keep it up! Can't wait for other lists!!!

[joshuapelphrey]

Thanks for this great list Matt. Especially helpful as many of these are not intuitive but once learned become indispensable. Please keep sharing.

[danielgroenewald]

"Crank this baby to Infinite and Undo to your hearts content." Rofl, can relate

[louyever]

Great video, definitely more like this please!

[k-cg]

wow holding down K & ctrl + p ! I love it ! very useful video thanks

[metamesh]

on the manipulators tip, you forgot something very useful, at least for me. While middle click and drag is cool, you can also hold SHIFT + middle click and drag and it will constraint the movement on the direction in which you are moving the mouse, in a way simliar to blender when pressing x, y, or z in grab mode

[brahmaananda]

do you have tutorial on how to animate those thing in 13:24 ?

[derptweaker]

Thanks you made med create a new hotkay's profile, much faster workflow now :D
last time i did this most be like 2012 or something.

[hamiltonafjr]

I’ve been looking for a better workflow for the 2d and pan tool 😊

[stasnikitin]

Ctrl+1 does the same as Shift+i (isolate), but CTRL+1 much easier to reach on keyboard.

[Yamagatabr]

There should be an option or more transparency to change some of the moore deep engrained shortcuts. For exampli, instealof using F9-F12 for component mode, I prefer to use 1-4 as in 3Ds. But when I changd it, it broke completely the system and I can`t use the 1-4 shortcuts in Hypershade and other views. Also there are some (awesome) marking menus that have their behaviou kinda of hiden in the keys, like the A and S marking menus that can only be acessed by pressing the key and then pressing hte mouse button. It should be easier to decouple that marking menu from the key and put it on another key and also change the Key shortcut on it`s default command.

[an.unarmed.civilian]

is soft select on ~2min when you rotate arms? neighboring verts appear to move very nicely

[ahmedshammoh]

it is great shortcut, should everyone using maya learn this because it saving huge time

[jaebigc]

many years ago (more than 7 years I thinks) I've learn one hot key that can "move object away from camera angle". but now I can't remember it of maybe it's been removed.

[Ahmed_Waleed]

the hotkeys are making the work more easy and fast
but can I set 2 hotkeys for the same command?