How to Get the Most Out of Maya’s Transform Tools

Jan Jinda covers the settings and options for Maya’s transform tools that can help speed up modeling.

Transform tools encompass move, scale and rotate – Pretty simple, right? Well if you work in Autodesk Maya, each tool comes with a host of options, some common, while others are more obscure, but all are useful at some time. Watch Jan Jinda cover some of the settings and options for these standard tools that can help you with your modeling workflows.

“There is a lot of settings and options to Move, Rotate and Scale transform tools,” Jinda notes. “This video will guide you through almost all of them.” Jinda walks through some excellent tips for working with edge and surface slides too. ” I think that your modeling will speed up quite a bit if you learn to squeeze the most from your tools,” Jinda says. I agree!