Autodesk 663B1-05A111-1001 User Guide - Page 28

1 | Interface overview How do I? > Select actions on a shelf Related topics ™ "Add a marking menu to the hotbox" on page 155 ™ "Customize the hotbox" on page 156 Select actions on a shelf • Click an icon on the shelf to perform the action. • Click a tab above the icons to show a different shelf. • Use the pull down menu to the left of the icons (the black arrow) to show or hide the tabs. • If the tabs are hidden, or if there are too many to fit on screen, click the tab icon to the left of the icons to show a menu of available shelves. Click to switch between shelves Click to show shelf options Basics 28 • Drag menu items or snippets of code onto a shelf with the middle mouse button. Load the default shelves Maya for Windows and Mac OS X include default shelves with buttons for commonly used features. The shelves are: Animation, Curves, Custom, Deformation, Dynamics, Fluids, Fur, General, Hair, Paint Effects, Polygons, Rendering, Subdivs, and Surfaces. Maya does not include the shelves in Linux because they can slow the startup time on those platforms. However you can use the following instructions to load them. 1 Open the Script Editor (Window > General Editors > Script Editor). 2 To load all shelves, copy the following and paste it into the Script Editor window, then select Script > Execute. (Select only some shelves from the list below if you do not want to load them all by default.) loadNewShelf "shelf_General.mel"; loadNewShelf "shelf_Curves.mel"; loadNewShelf "shelf_Surfaces.mel";