Q: When I go to create a new polygon primitive (e.g. cube) Maya wants me to draw it out on the grid. How I can change it so that it just creates the object for me (like I see in tutorials)?
A: Turn off interactive creation. Create > Polygon Primitive > Interactive Creation (same goes for NURBS).
Last edited by stwert; 02-04-2011 at 07:47 PM.