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Using the Modeling Toolkit

Using the Modeling Toolkit - Maya Tutorial

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Using the Modeling Toolkit

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- [Instructor] Maya's modeling toolkit has a number of features that will help you model faster. So let's take a look at how to use some of the basics. I'm going to select this spinner, which is the front of that propeller, and let's go up here. And on the top left, you'll see this button with a little hammer on it, and I'm going to select it. And that's the modeling toolkit. Now this will show up as a tab, so you can also press that tab. Now, the first thing about the modeling toolkit is that allows you to select vertices, edges, and faces without going to a marking menu. So here I can select vertices, here I can select edges and faces. So that's one way to use this. You can also go back into object mode. Now another really nice feature is symmetry. So if I select vertices, let's go ahead and select some of the vertices around this opening. So right there. Now we have symmetry and this allows you to model objects…

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