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All Maya Hotkeys

This topic provides a searchable list of all Maya hotkeys. You can also use the links at the
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Tool Operations
Return

Complete current tool

Insert

Enter tool Edit mode

Shift

Select Tool, or with left mouse

button for Component marking
menu

Alt

Select Tool, or with left mouse

button for Polygon marking
menu

Select Tool, or with left mouse

button for Selection Mask
marking menu

Move Tool, or with left mouse

button for Move Tool marking
menu

Rotate Tool, or with left mouse

button for Rotate Tool marking
menu

Scale Tool, or with left mouse

button for Scale Tool marking
menu

Show universal manipulator

tool

Show manipulator tool

Selects the last used tool that

is not one of Select, Move,
Rotate, or Scale

Ctrl

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Move, Rotate, Scale Tool

Snapping (press and release)

=, +

Increase manipulator size

Decrease manipulator size

With left mouse button move

pivot (Move Tool)

Insert

Switches between move pivot

and move object (Move Tool)

Hotbox Display

Alt

space

(When pressed down) Show

the hotbox

Default Hotbox Style (Zones

and Menu Rows)

Displaying Objects
(Show, Hide)
Ctrl

Display > Hide > Hide

Selection

Shift

Display > Show > Show

Selection

Ctrl+Shift

Display > Show > Show Last

Hidden

Alt

Display > Hide > Hide

Unselected Objects

Shift

Show > Isolate Select > View

Selected (in the panel menus)

Display Settings
4

Shading > Wireframe

Shaded display

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Shaded and Textured display

Lighting > Use All Lights

Default quality display setting

Rough quality display setting

Medium quality display setting

Smooth quality display setting

File Operations
Ctrl (or

File > New Scene

Ctrl (or

File > Open Scene

Ctrl (or

File > Save Scene

Shift + s

File > Save Scene As

File > Exit

Create file reference

Ctrl (or

Ctrl (or

Ctrl

Animation Operations
s

Animate > Set Key

Insert Keys Tool (for Graph

Editor) (press and release)

Shift

With left mouse button for

Keyframe marking menu

Shift

With middle mouse button for

Tangent marking menu

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Shift

Set key for Rotate

Shift

Set key for Scale

Shift

Set key for Translate

Alt

Toggle Multicolor Feedback

Playback Control
Alt

Move forward one frame in

time

Alt

Move backward one frame in

time

Go to Next key

Go to Previous key

Alt

Turn Playback on or off

Alt+Shift

Go to Min Frame

With middle mouse button for

virtual Time Slider mode
(press and hold and scrub
timeline)

Tumble, Track, or Dolly

Alt

Left mouse button

Tumble Tool (press and

release)

Alt

Middle mouse button

Track Tool (press and

release)

Alt

Right mouse button

Dolly Tool (press and release)

2D Pan/Zoom
\+
\+
\

Middle mouse button

Right mouse button

2D Pan tool
2D Zoom tool
Enable/disable 2D Pan/Zoom.

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Painting Operations
Alt

Flood with the current value

Alt

Turn Show Wireframe on or

off

Alt

Turn Color Feedback on or

off

Alt

Toggle Reflection on or off

With left mouse button for

Artisan Paint Operation
marking menu

Modify upper brush radius

(press and release)

Shift

Modify lower brush radius

(press and release)

Ctrl

Edit Paint Effects template

brush settings

Modify maximum
displacement (Sculpt
Surfaces and Sculpt Polygons
Tool)

Modify paint value

Switch to pick color mode

(press and release)

Open Paint Effects panel

With left mouse button for

the Poly Brush Tool marking
menu

With middle mouse button

for Poly UV Tool marking
menu

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Snapping Operations

Shift

Snap to curves (press and

release)

Snap to grids (press and

release)

Snap to points (press and

release)

Move, Rotate, Scale Tool

snapping (press and release)

Move, Rotate, Scale Tool

relative snapping (press and
release)

Selecting Objects and

Components
F8

Select > Object/Component

(Switch between object and
component editing)

F9

Select > Vertex

F10

Select > Edge

F11

Select > Face

F12

Select > UV

Ctrl

Select next intermediate object

Alt

F9

Select > Vertex Face

<

Shrink polygon selection region

>

Grow polygon selection region

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Selecting Menus
Ctrl

Show/hide main menu bar

Shift

Show/hide panel menu bar

Show/hide panel toolbar

With left mouse button for Menu Set

marking menu

F2

Show Animation menu set

F3

Show Polygons menu set

F4

Show Modeling menu set

F5

Show Dynamics menu set

F6

Show Rendering menu set

Ctrl+Shift

Edit Operations
z

Edit > Undo (also Ctrl+z/

Edit > Redo

Edit > Repeat

Shift

Repeat command at mouse

position

Ctrl

Edit > Duplicate

Ctrl+Shift

Edit > Duplicate Special

Shift

Edit > Duplicate with Transform

Ctrl

Edit > Group

Edit > Parent

Shift

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Edit > Unparent

Ctrl (or

Edit > Cut

Ctrl (or

Edit > Copy

Ctrl (or

Edit > Paste

Rendering
Ctrl

Left

Render view next image

Ctrl

Right

Render view previous image

Window and View

Operations
Ctrl

Shift

Shift

Ctrl

Switches between Attribute

Editor or Channel Box
displays the Attribute Editor
if neither is shown

Frame All in active panel, or

with left mouse button for
History Operations marking
menu

Frame All in all views

Frame Selected in active

panel

Frame Selected in all views

space

(When tapped) Switch

between the active window
in multi-pane display and
single pane display

space

Switch between the standard

view and full-screen view of
the current panels

Redo view change

Undo view change

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Alt

Switch between a gradient,

black, dark gray, or light
gray background color.

Shift

View previous layout

Shift

View next layout

F1

Help > Maya Help

Moving Selected
Objects
Alt

Up

Move up one pixel

Alt

Down

Move down one pixel

Alt

Left

Move left one pixel

Alt

Right

Move right one pixel

Pick Walk*
Up

Walk up current

Down

Walk down current

Left

Walk left in current

Right

Walk right in current

*Based on selection, the

arrow keys let you walk
up the hierarchy (object
selected) or walk about
the objects components
(component selected,
including vertices, edge
loops, edge rings).

Modeling Operations
1

Default polygon mesh display

(no smoothing)

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Cage + smooth polygon mesh

display

Smooth polygon mesh display

Ctrl

Display coarser subdivision

surface level

Ctrl

Select/refine subdivision surface

component

Ctrl

F9

Convert polygon selection to

Vertices

Ctrl

F10

Convert polygon selection to

Edges

Ctrl

F11

Covert polygon selection to

Faces

Ctrl

F12

Covert polygon selection to UVs

Ctrl

Proxy > Subdiv Proxy

Displays original mesh (proxy)
and a smoothed version of the
original.

Ctrl+Shift

Proxy > Subdiv Proxy >

Displays Subdiv Proxy options
window

Toggles the display between the

original (proxy) and the
smoothed mesh.

Displays both the original

(proxy) and the smoothed
mesh.

Alt

Modify > Convert > NURBS to

Subdiv, Polygons to Subdiv

Alt+Shift

Displays option window for

Modify > Convert > NURBS to
or Polygons to
Subdiv >
Subdiv >
(depending on
whether NURBS or Polygons are
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Page Up

Increases Division Levels for

Smooth Mesh Preview or Subdiv
Proxy.

Page Down

Decreases Division Levels for

Smooth Mesh Preview or Subdiv
Proxy.

Lock/unlock length of curve

(press and hold)

Note Expos hotkeys (F9, F10, F11, F12) may conflict with preset Maya hotkeys. If you
experience this problem, you can change the Maya hotkeys, or change the Expos hotkeys in
the System Preferences panel of the computer running Mac OS X. See Hotkeys in Maya for
Mac OS X.

Note Certain key combinations, such as those involving the ~ or ` keys, may not be
accessible on non-US English keyboards.

Topics in this section

Animation hotkeys
Camera hotkeys
Display hotkeys
Edit operation hotkeys
File operation hotkeys
General tool hotkeys
Interface hotkeys
Modeling hotkeys
Paint operation hotkeys
Rendering hotkeys
Selection hotkeys
Snapping hotkeys
Tool and action hotkeys
Transformation hotkeys
View hotkeys
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