attached is the extrusion tool on a set of faces on a sphere

click what i circled

sometimes clicking it wont have an effect because there's nothing to change

just as a real simple example, it extends to everything, if you take a face on a cube and click extrude then no matter how many times you get mouse-button-happy on hat double circle you wont see anything change because there's nothing to change


as for your panel view being doubled, just use Panels > Othographic > Side

i don't understand why you're using view > predefined bookmarks

i never even knew such menu existed

oh yeah, i just discovered more hot keys when i was going to push 5 i pushed f5 instead

f2 = Animation menu set
f3 = Polygon menu set
f4 = Sufaces menu set
f5 = Dynamics menu set
f6 = Rendering menu set



ben hobden, i don't know why you would be losing your saved work. Maybe you think you're saving it but it doesn't? sometimes the keyboard input stops working entirely and you can only use mouse input, in that case you have to manually save with the mouse instead of the keyboard (annoying...i know) and restart Maya or sometimes the computer