Snap mode key stuck?

[Lindsey_Robbins]

Hey, all.

This happens to me fairly often. Not sure if it's a bug, or what.

If I hold J to snap rotate (or scale, or such), about half the time, it gets 'stuck', meaning I'm in snap mode for everything. If I hold J, I can move normal. It's as if I hit Shift+J, but I have not. 

Now, Shift+J SOMETIMES fixes this, but it's finicky.  Shift+J let go at the same time doesn't work. You have to lift your finger off of shift, FIRST, and then J. Even then, I often have to do it two or three times to get the timing right, and I have to turn it off in all the tools individually.

This happens to me on multiple systems, on Maya 2016-2018, about once a week. Does holding J for too long or something swap modes, like Shift+J?

Is this just me? It's super annoying. 

[sean.heasley]

Hi @Lindsey_Robbins 

Personally I haven't seen this happen on any systems except when they have custom hotkeys/scripts controlling things as usually something is going wrong there.

I'm working to try and reproduce this but am having no luck so far so if you have any concrete steps to reproduce it please let me know!

[Lindsey_Robbins]

Of course, can't make it happen, now. XD I'll keep trying to get a bullet-proof set of steps.

 Maybe it's a memory issue, I do use a ton of xGen, and crashes and memory issues just... happen. 

[sean.heasley]

Hi @Lindsey_Robbins 

That definitely might be it. I feel like I've had times as well when pushing Maya hard memory wise that odd things like this may happen.

Keep me posted if you find any other repro steps!

[shawnLM3LT]

Thank you for this.

This issue has never happened to me before and all of a sudden, my roataions AND translations were snapping, but it was inconsistent, meaning it only happened on some controllers, which make it even more odd.

Your message helped alleviate the issue.  As you said, it's finicky and you need to try a few times for it to take effect, but the SHIFT J trick worked.

[mitchelklineanimation · Accepted solution]

I just found the solution. Go into the tool settings for rotation, and turn off "Step Snap." I don't know what gets it stuck, but that's how to turn it off.

[270007762 · Accepted solution]

Thanks you so much for this! I have no idea how I managed to do it either. I thought I might have accidentally pressed one of the adjacent keys next to 'j' but for some reason the 'shift'+'j' fix wouldn't work for me, but going into each of the settings for the move, rotate and scale tool, fixed the issue. So a big thanks!

*** Edit: I played around with it for a bit and if you press 'alt'+'j' it also flicks the function into 'Absolute' so maybe I tried to move whilst holding 'j'? Anyways hope this helps?

[a100226486]

for those one who got this issue like us the fast and non problematic way to fix it is go to the tool setting on the top right corner and reset all the tool settings that fix the `problem cuase in maya 2025 some setting have been moved so hope this work to all