Hot keys for camera placement

# 1 20-06-2014 , 10:05 PM

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I'm new to Maya, but I've been using other 3D programs for a while.

One thing that I was very much accustomed to on the previous program I was using that is not present in Maya was a lack of being able to control the view with the number pad. I wanted to know if there was a way I could set it so that:
4 = left view
5 = front view
6 = right view
8 = top view
2 = bottom view
3 = perspective view.

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# 2 21-06-2014 , 02:36 AM

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Doesn't seem to be the case. Maya doesn't differentiate between the two sets of number keys. You would have to overwrite, the smooth preview, shaded, shaded with texture hotkeys etc.

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# 3 21-06-2014 , 08:15 AM

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And I am totally up for that, because I find the current function. of the numbers to be less than useful for me. How can I overwrite them into the desired camera controls?

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# 4 21-06-2014 , 12:41 PM

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Go to windows/preferences/hot key edit...................dave

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# 5 21-06-2014 , 03:57 PM

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Yes, I've gotten that far, but I don't know what to do from there:
1. What are the names of the commands that I'm looking for regarding making the camera angle change?
2. I don't really seem to get how I'm supposed to remove hot keys. I've been looking through the manual, and at a number of youtube videos and gained little insight. And that's why I'm asking on this board.

The manual says

Remove
Select a hotkey and click Remove to unassign the hotkey.

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How do I do the whole "select a hotkey" bit? Because "remove" is always grayed out.

Last edited by Saijee; 21-06-2014 at 04:40 PM.

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# 6 22-06-2014 , 03:31 PM

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Click on the assigned key in the "current hotkeys" box, selecting it will enable the remove button.

I would just go ahead and hit the new button and create hotkeys from scratch using this code. The example below switches the camera view to the right side.

Code:

// To act on it, we need to know what panel is currently active
string $panel = `getPanel -withFocus`;

// Try to change the bookmark ONLY if the active panel is a modeling view
if(`getPanel -typeOf $panel` == "modelPanel"){
	
	// you can change "-rightSide" flag to any of the appropriate bookmark flags
	// for the other hotkeys
	viewSet -rightSide `modelEditor -q -camera $panel`;
	
	
}

For the front/leftSide/back etc flags check the command page https://download.autodesk.com/global/...s/viewSet.html

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