Weird bug with tools in MAYA 2019

[Anonymous]

 Hello! I'm a student, I've been studying Maya 2018 for something like a year and a couple of days ago I decided to try to move to Maya 2019. I knew that it had some sort of bugs with modelling (i saw a review on youtube). But still, it seemed like animation should be ok, so I tried it. It was okay (i was animating, not modelling), but now I started to constantly receive a fatal error  window every time I try to change  from paint weights tool to any other tool (move tool, scale etc.) How do I fix it?

[jwlove · Accepted solution]

I think you would need to log/report the bug to Autodesk... it would help them if you're able to determine a repeatable pattern and can give them step by step instructions to cause the crash (ex: do this, do this, do this = crash)...

It might be a good idea to go back to 2018 and wait for fixes (provided you haven't done too much in 2019?).  I know that's not exactly the best answer.... but the only other thing I can think of is to maybe set some range of motion keys on your controls to paint weights with and save your file often as you paint them in case maya crashes...  You can delete the keys after you've finished your weights...