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Use the Modeling Toolkit

Use the Modeling Toolkit - Maya Tutorial

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Use the Modeling Toolkit

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- [Instructor] Now that you're familiar with some of the modeling tools in Maya, I want to show you the modeling toolkit, which puts a lot of this functionality in one place. So the modeling toolkit can be accessed by pressing this button here, and that brings it up along the sidebar. So now we have the channel box, the attribute editor, and the modeling toolkit. Now the modeling toolkit has a lot of the tools that you will be using on a day-to-day basis in Maya, and it's actually a very handy way to model. So let's go ahead and select our object and you can see right here, we have a very easy way to select our vertices, our edges, or faces. We can also do what's called a multi-component select where we can select vertices, and edges, and faces. We also have the ability to turn our symmetry on and off. So if I go into say a vertex mode, select some of these, I can turn on symmetry. So if I did, say, object Z, you'll see…

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