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Configuration

This document describes how to configure and customize preferences in Autodesk Maya .

Accessing Preferences​

  1. Open the Autodesk Maya application.
  2. Click Preferences from the main menu.

Interface​

Interface​

  • Customize interface layout options.
  • Configure What’s New highlights.
  • Adjust device interface scaling.

UI Elements​

  • Control visible UI elements.
  • Configure editors in the main window.
  • Customize panel configuration options.

Help​

  • Configure in-view messages.
  • Enable or disable popup help.
  • Set help location options.

Display & Viewport​

Display​

  • Customize performance options.
  • Adjust view options.
  • Configure Viewport 2.0 settings.

Font​

  • Customize Viewport 2.0 font size options.

Modeling & Geometry​

Kinematics​

  • Customize inverse kinematics options.

Manipulators​

  • Adjust manipulator size.
  • Configure manipulator visibility.
  • Customize:
    • Component manipulators
    • Handle selection
    • Plane handles
    • Pivot manipulators
    • Light manipulators

NURBS​

  • Customize NURBS display options.

Polygons​

  • Customize polygon display options.

Subdivision Surfaces​

  • Customize subdivision display options.

Animation & Time​

Settings​

  • Configure world coordinate system.
  • Customize working units.
  • Adjust tolerance settings.

Animation​

  • Customize evaluation options.
  • Configure auto key behavior.
  • Adjust rotation interpolation.
  • Customize tangents.
  • Configure animation blending.
  • Customize:
    • Graph Editor
    • Time Editor
    • Guide lines
    • Rigging options
    • Camera Sequencer


Cached Playback​

  • Customize cached playback settings.
  • Monitor cached playback status.

Time Slider​

  • Customize time slider behavior.
  • Configure playback options.

Rendering & Color​

Cameras​

  • Configure default camera options.
  • Enable animated camera transitions.
  • Customize view-fit behavior.

Colour Management​

  • Configure colour management preferences.
  • Set colour transform preferences.
  • Define input colour space rules.
  • Customize output colour transforms.
  • Adjust UI settings.
  • Configure floating-point render targets.
  • Set export preferences.

Rendering​

  • Customize rendering options.
  • Configure render setup templates.
  • Manage render setting presets.

Files, Assets & Projects​

Assets​

  • Customize asset-related options.

File and Projects​

  • Configure project settings.
  • Adjust recent history size.
  • Modify autosave behavior.
  • Configure crash recovery.
  • Set ASCII file compression mode.
  • Customize display and render layers.
  • Configure file dialogs.
  • Manage versioning.
  • Configure image file options.
  • Customize file-open error dialogs.
  • Configure Script Editor options.

File References​

  • Customize file reference options.

Advanced Configuration​

Modeling​

  • Configure output geometry type.
  • Customize NURBS interaction.
  • Adjust polygon options.
  • Configure polygon tangent spaces.
  • Customize Quad Draw.
  • Configure 3D Paint options.

Node Editor​

  • Customize display options.
  • Configure refresh graph defaults.

Selection​

  • Customize modifier keys.
  • Configure polygon selection.
  • Adjust selection priority.

Snapping​

  • Customize snapping behavior.
  • Configure UV Texture Editor snapping.
  • Adjust edge snapping.

Sound​

  • Customize sound options.

Undo​

  • Configure undo options.

Shaders & Caching​

DX11 Shader​

  • Configure default effects file.

GLSL Shader​

  • Customize default effects.

XGen​

  • Configure cache options.
  • Customize Viewport 2.0 options.
  • Adjust threading behavior.

GPU Cache​

  • View hardware information.
  • Configure VRAM management.
  • Customize OpenGL-based selection.
  • Adjust advanced display settings.

Security & Scripting​

Save Actions​

  • Customize save action options.

Security​

  • Configure general security options.
  • Manage startup script permissions.

MEL​

  • Customize MEL command options.

Python Security​

  • Configure Python security preferences.
  • Manage built-in functions.
  • Configure Python modules.

Extensions & Integration​

Plugins​

  • Customize plugin loading options.

Modules​

  • Configure modular loading options.

Applications​

  • Configure image viewing applications.
  • Configure image editing applications.
  • Configure sequence viewing applications.
  • Customize external communication options.