2. Basic Menus

2.1- Using the Marking Menus

2.2- The “Display” Menu
   2.2.1- Setting your view of the Maya scene
      – Using real-world scale, orientation, and floor level
      – Saving and Loading a Viewpoint in the Scene
      – Locking the Current View of the Scene
   2.2.2- Lighting, Shading, X-Ray Vision
   2.2.3- Look- Through- Selected
   2.2.4- Hiding Objects
   2.2.5- Smooth Display (Polygon Display Smoothing)

2.3- The “Tool” Menu
   2.3.1- The Basic Tools: Select, Move, Rotate, Scale
   2.3.2- The Omni Tool
   2.3.3- The QuickDrag Tool
   2.3.4- The Edit Pivot Tool
   2.3.5- Tool Options
      – Soft Selection
      – Symmetry
      – Throttling
      – Snapping

2.4- The “Selection” Menu
   2.4.1– Selecting All, Inverse, Parent, Group
   2.4.2– Shrinking and Growing the Selection
   2.4.3– Convert Selection from One Type to Another
   2.4.4– Extend Selection: Edge Loops, Rings, Face Loops etc.

2.5- The “Object” Menu
   2.5.1– Delete History, Freeze Transformations, Center Pivot, Delete Objects
   2.5.2– Grouping and Parenting
   2.5.3– Duplicate and Duplicate-Special
   2.5.4– Transform Objects (Flipping and Rotating)

2.6- The “MARUI” Menu
   2.6.1– Undo, Redo, Repeat Last Operation
   2.6.2– Opening Maya Editor Windows
   2.6.3– Saving the Maya Scene

2.7- Using the Maya “HotBox” (“Spacebar Menu”) in VR

2.8- The UI Layout Menu