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maya doesn't load my hotkey set at startup

Anonymous — Tue, 26 Jul 2016 20:22:02 GMT

everytime I start Maya it revert back to default hotkey set, I have to open hotkey settings and select my own set again, any help?

Re: maya doesn't load my hotkey set at startup

macleanchr — Tue, 26 Jul 2016 22:33:42 GMT

Yeah, they broke this. Until they hotfix it in a few months, you can force this to load your hotkeys by adding a userSetup.mel text file to your ".../maya/2017/prefs/scripts/" folder (if you don't have one already. If you do, just add this to the bottom of the file). Open that file in a text editor and add the following:

hotkeySet -e -current *whatever_you_named_your_hotkey_user_file*;

For example, mine is:

hotkeySet -e -current chris;

Oh Maya.

Re: maya doesn't load my hotkey set at startup

Anonymous — Wed, 10 Aug 2016 19:01:44 GMT

Thanks that worked for me

Re: maya doesn't load my hotkey set at startup

Anonymous — Fri, 19 Aug 2016 16:48:48 GMT

OBSERVATION:

In my case the name of the hotkey set file was "userHotkeys_Maya_Default_Duplicate" but I had to use the following code:

"hotkeySet -e -current Maya_Default_Duplicate;"

Re: maya doesn't load my hotkey set at startup

mareknaprstek — Wed, 07 Sep 2016 07:47:04 GMT

Thanks! It was driving me crazy. Just found the userSetup.mel in ".../maya/2017/scripts/" instead of ".../maya/2017/prefs/scripts/"

Cheers

Re: maya doesn't load my hotkey set at startup

Anonymous — Sat, 03 Dec 2016 00:57:08 GMT

just leave it here

Re: maya doesn't load my hotkey set at startup

mehdiablo — Thu, 05 Jan 2017 14:04:54 GMT

Making hotkeys more complicated to set... not a smart move autodesk

Re: maya doesn't load my hotkey set at startup

_sebastian_f — Thu, 05 Jan 2017 15:33:23 GMT

@mehdiablo update your maya the bug is fixed for quite some time now. what @Anonymous posted is actually a very nice new feature and was a workaround.

Re: maya doesn't load my hotkey set at startup

Anonymous — Mon, 13 Feb 2017 19:35:17 GMT

Here it is in python in case anyone is using a userSetup.py file.

from maya import cmds
cmds.hotkeySet("HOTKEY_SET_NAME", e=1, cu=1)

Re: maya doesn't load my hotkey set at startup

Anonymous — Wed, 29 Mar 2017 11:05:13 GMT

Yes! Thx

Re: maya doesn't load my hotkey set at startup

Anonymous — Sat, 27 May 2017 01:21:20 GMT

I am experiencing this in the latest version of Maya LT.

Re: maya doesn't load my hotkey set at startup

conkerz — Tue, 06 Jun 2017 16:01:02 GMT

The above script solution works.

Another solution is to link a hotkey set to a workspace as shown here:

https://youtu.be/k2oKSU2ww8s

Re: maya doesn't load my hotkey set at startup

Anonymous — Thu, 23 Aug 2018 14:35:41 GMT

Late to this thread but I was searching for solutions to this. The way I've done this is to copy these files from a backed up copy of your prefs. Worked for me today.

/maya/2018/prefs/hotkeys/

userHotkeys_*.mel

/maya/2018/prefs/

userNamedCommands.mel

userRunTimeCommands.mel