Maza tutorial

Maya Introduction(Studio Prof. Greg Lynn)This brief handout gives a short introduction to MAYA. Only the most important and basic commands are listed here. For further information and special knowledge to all the commands you can temporarily lend a MAYA manual at the Lynn studio. For any other questions contact us. In this intro several abbreviations are used: LMB – Left mouse button RMB – Right mouse button MMB – middle mouse buttonMaya fi le types : mb – default: MAYA binaryma – MAYA ascii ( for exchange with other MAYA version –manipulate header)iges – Iges File for data exchange with Surfcam, Rhino, FromZ….etc. supports nurbs geometries. (Hint: to import in SurfCam modify fi le extension to .igs)Dxf (not recommended) polygon format for AutoCAD etc.The viewport- Different viewport confi gurations are available on the sidebar.- To change between default viewport confi gurations press the spacebar.- Defaults are the perspective window & the 4-tiled persp/orthogonal viewsOrientation in the viewport: Alt+LMB+drag: rotate viewAlt+MMB+drag: pan viewCtrl+Alt+drag: zoom windowDisplay properties:Select viewport and hit 4 for wireframe display6 for shaded view with default lighting7 for shaded view with scene lighting Select object and hit 1 for rough display 2 for medium display3 for fi ne display note: this only effects the display not the object.Problems with the viewport:Lost in Space: Center view on selected object: viewport ...