topic Re: isolate selected while keep reference image plane visible? in Maya Modeling Forum

isolate selected while keep reference image plane visible?

Anonymous — Sun, 03 Dec 2017 04:28:33 GMT

Hi Guys,

Is there a way isolate selected while keep reference image plane visible? maybe some mel script or something laying around? would be nice if this is a UX improvement in maya, like isolate selected but keep image planes

Re: isolate selected while keep reference image plane visible?

Roland.Reyer — Tue, 05 Dec 2017 11:41:12 GMT

Hi,

can you please submit this idea to the forum "Ideas for Maya"?

https://mayafeedback.autodesk.com/forums/160514-ideas-for-maya-forum

It is a good idea.

Re: isolate selected while keep reference image plane visible?

Anonymous — Fri, 08 Dec 2017 16:49:14 GMT

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Re: isolate selected while keep reference image plane visible?

HorrificDoom — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 13:01:00 GMT

Hello, from future 🙂 I wrote a simple rough workaround on MEL. You can get it in the description of video.
Link: https://youtu.be/0a22LUtOi40
This is very peculiar case, because before version 2018 everything works fine and no kludge needed. I'm surprised that it was never fixed back again.
And i'm really curious in this situation, cuz i found none similar requests for past 9 years. It's like or everybody wrote their own hack or this is an obsolete way of modelling or just went to blender and forget the thing... Sadly