topic Re: How to remove cameras? in Maya Forum

How to remove cameras?

Anonymous — Fri, 01 Jun 2018 13:33:59 GMT

Hello, somehow I duplicated cameras I don't need them and I tried to remove them, but they can't be deleted. How to disable them?

Help please.

Re: How to remove cameras?

sean.heasley — Fri, 01 Jun 2018 17:30:56 GMT

Hi @Anonymous

I just tried this and selected them in the Outliner and was able to delete them.

Did you try deleting them through the Outliner? Do any error messages appear?

Let me know if anything changes!

Re: How to remove cameras?

Anonymous — Sat, 02 Jun 2018 09:33:18 GMT

They can't be deleted via delete button.

Cameras always get in the way when I model, so I put all cameras to a layer and hid it. But the new cameras created themselves and I can't delete them.

Re: How to remove cameras?

sean.heasley — Mon, 04 Jun 2018 13:25:55 GMT

Hi @Anonymous

Hmm this is unusual.

When you get a chance, can you please zip and attach the scene file here or via dropbox/google drive or another file sharing program so I can take a look at it?

Re: How to remove cameras?

Anonymous — Mon, 04 Jun 2018 16:51:34 GMT

Here is the file: http://rgho.st/7wSSH5xGh

Re: How to remove cameras?

sean.heasley — Mon, 04 Jun 2018 16:58:18 GMT

Hi @Anonymous

Thanks for attaching the scene file!

I just opened it and was able to select all of the cameras and delete them using the delete key.

If this isn't working for you, you may want to try deleting your settings/preferences then try deleting the cameras again.

Please let me know if this works or if you need any more assistance!

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Re: How to remove cameras?

Anonymous — Tue, 05 Jun 2018 07:11:57 GMT

Strange, didn't work for me. However I just created a new scene and imported everything there and just deleted cameras from a new scene.

He is the video where I dropped prefs and tried to delete cameras.

Re: How to remove cameras?

mspeer — Wed, 06 Jun 2018 00:19:05 GMT

Hi!

@Anonymous and @sean.heasley.

These cameras are set to be startup cameras and therefore are read only and cannot be deleted by default.

This maybe happened by importing or referencing an other scene-file + an unknown action that broke the usual behavior.

Use this MEL command to remove the startup flag from cameras (,example for camera "persp1"):

camera -e -startupCamera false persp1;

Re: How to remove cameras?

sean.heasley — Wed, 06 Jun 2018 13:16:26 GMT

Thanks for the tip @mspeer!

Re: How to remove cameras?

Anonymous — Fri, 08 Feb 2019 09:34:22 GMT

Thank @mspeer . I replaced the persp1 with the name of my camera:

camera -e -startupCamera false dougliehillReservoirBaseScene_v07:_UNKNOWN_REF_NODE_fosterParent1;

It returned this line:

// Error: line 1: Non camera object in the list. //

Any thoughts?

Re: How to remove cameras?

mspeer — Fri, 08 Feb 2019 14:32:09 GMT

Hi!

@Anonymous .

The problem in your case seems to be more complex, i can't help you further without a scene-file.

Re: How to remove cameras?

vivekmandapeta007 — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 06:14:36 GMT

# Non-deletable node Delete

# Python Code
import maya.cmds as cmds
camera_to_delete = "side1" #Camera Name
cmds.camera(camera_to_delete, e=True, startupCamera=False)
cmds.delete(camera_to_delete)