Autodesk 663B1-05A111-1001 User Guide - Page 209

12 | Basics Menus Reference > File > Import Load all references Opens the file with all references loaded. You can change the state of reference loading after the file is open in Maya by opening the Reference Editor ("Reference Editor overview" on page 380) and selecting the references you want to unload. Load no references This opens the file without loading any references. You can load references after the file is open in Maya by opening the Reference Editor ("Reference Editor overview" on page 380) and selecting the references you want to load. Load top-level references only Loads only the top-most referenced files (which may themselves contain many nested referenced files). This is useful in cases where you may be opening a complex nested scene reference hierarchy with many nested references and you want to easily work at the top level of the hierarchy. Name Clash options Use namespaces When you import or reference a scene with the Use Namespaces option turned on, Maya creates a new namespace that contains the imported or referenced data. Turning on the Use Namespaces option ensures that all nodes are uniquely named. A namespace is a grouping of objects under a given name. Each item in a namespace is identified by its own name along with the namespace it belongs to. By default, the basename of the imported or referenced file is added to the beginning of the imported or referenced object names, separated by colons. For example, if you are importing a scene named foo.ma that contains an object named ball, after it's imported the ball is named foo:ball. You can change the prefix by selecting Resolve clashing nodes with this string and entering a prefix. Tip Before importing or referencing a file, make sure that the renaming prefix contains no invalid characters. You can create, name, parent, and remove namespaces using the namespace command. Namespaces do not effect selection, the DAG, the Dependency Graph, or any other aspect of Maya. Basics 209