Keywords: Maya, Display, Viewport, Grid, Pivot, Layer

Maya Display series of articles:

Grid

Display -> Grid Settings

Tweak grid size.

Reset Grid Settings.

Pivot (Transform Axis)

Q: How to display / hide pivot?
A: Show -> Viewport -> Manipulator.

Q: How to scale the arrow of pivot?

  • Numpad +: makes arrow bigger.
  • Numpad -: makes arrow smaller.

It also works for Rotate and Scale Tool.

Show mesh triangle count

Display -> Heads Up Display -> Poly Count

Layers

Create layer from selected:

Then you can toggle the visibility of layers:

You can also switch the Display Type to R (Reference) to disable the selection of current layer.

It’s very useful when imported an asset into Maya as reference.

The way mentioned above will effect all the objects in the layer, but sometimes you want to change single object’s Display Type.
Solution: Display -> Drawing Overrides.

Show and Hide

If an object was hidden even the visibility is on, maybe it was hidden by type filter, you can Show All to display it.

Floating Menus

If there’s a stud on the top of mean, you can click it to pin the menu on the viewport.

Then you can click the menu directly from viewport.

Window Docking

Docked window to floating window: Hold LMB and drag out slider bar.

Floating window to docked window: Hold LMB and drag into slider bar.

Shading Mode

The default Wireframe mode (hotkey: Num 4) isn’t friendly for preview surface of geometry, you can enable X-Ray and Wireframe on Shaded to get a better view mode.

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