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Cannot select a single object in Maya 2019 for Mac

Eadig — Wed, 13 Jan 2021 12:35:02 GMT

Hello everyone

While using Maya 2019 for Mac, I noticed I could not select a single object at all. Whenever I throw in a new primitive, all of the objects are selected, so transforming the object forcefully transforms all other objects too:

I did Google searches before posting this and tried resetting system preferences and ensuring I was doing that in the Select Objects mode, but I wasn't getting anywhere.

Please someone help me find a solution to this glitch.

Thanks for reading!

Re: Cannot select a single object in Maya 2019 for Mac

Eadig — Wed, 13 Jan 2021 13:23:57 GMT

I just noticed that disabling soft-select resolves this issue, but is it necessary to have this option turned on? What might be the merit?

Re: Cannot select a single object in Maya 2019 for Mac

brentmc — Wed, 13 Jan 2021 13:36:57 GMT

Hi,

Soft selection can be toggled on/off with the B hotkey so you probably hit this key by accident which is how it became enabled. (since it is off by default)

https://help.autodesk.com/view/MAYAUL/2020/ENU/?guid=GUID-FF7C8670-97C7-4C13-9A6F-3B0A8F881EC9

Brent

Re: Cannot select a single object in Maya 2019 for Mac

brentmc — Mon, 25 Jan 2021 10:45:11 GMT

Hi,

Soft selection is useful for modeling as it allows you to apply a falloff to the selected components as shown in the docs:

https://help.autodesk.com/view/MAYAUL/2020/ENU/?guid=GUID-FF7C8670-97C7-4C13-9A6F-3B0A8F881EC9

As I mentioned before it is not on by default but was likely enabled by accidentally hitting the B key and the setting is preserved across Maya sessions.

Brent