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 button

Maya file types :
mb – default: MAYA binary
ma – 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 file extension to .igs) Dxf (not recommended) polygon format for AutoCAD etc.

The viewport
- Different viewport configurations are available on the sidebar.
- To change between default viewport configurations press the spacebar.
- Defaults are the perspective window & the 4-tiled persp/orthogonal views
Orientation in the viewport:
Alt+LMB+drag: rotate view
Alt+MMB+drag: pan view
Ctrl+Alt+drag: zoom window
Display properties:
Select viewport and hit
4 for wireframe display
6 for shaded view with default lighting
7 for shaded view with scene lighting

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