How to remove cameras?

[Anonymous]

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.

[sean.heasley]

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!

[Anonymous]

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.

[sean.heasley]

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?

[Anonymous]

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

[sean.heasley]

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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[Anonymous]

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.

[mspeer · Accepted solution]

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;

[sean.heasley]

Thanks for the tip @mspeer!

[Anonymous]

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?

[mspeer]

Hi!

@Anonymous .

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

[vivekmandapeta007 · Accepted solution]

#  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)