Blue lines on object and not in wireframe

[Anonymous]

I just installed Maya 2016 and am a novice. Can anyone explain to me why there are light blue/green grid-lines on my object every time I create any geometry? What is their purpose, do I need to have them and if not, how do I get rid of them?

[keith112 · Accepted solution]

Hi,

So you're in component mode. Which you can get to by selecting F9 on you keyboard, select F8 or click the object button at the top. The orange line represents what you have selected.

Those line allow you to shape your geometry.

Here is a small section of text that will help: https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/maya/learn-explore/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/2016/ENU/Maya/fil...

If I were you I would follow some tutorials to better understand Maya. 

Best of luck

[Anonymous]

I tried pushing F8 but it still didnt work.This is really bothering my work.Do anyone has that problem?

[keith112]

Right Click on your object and select object mode

[Anonymous]

Dude I tried that like a million times,and it doesnt work.

[Anonymous]

Actually it worked my computer wasn't working for a little it was a broken now its fixed.

[rhoetzlein]

It took me hours to solve this, but I wanted to document all the reasons for the "blue lines". 

Here are the solutions:
1) Shading -> Wireframe on Shaded
2) Mesh Display -> Soften Edge (hard edges sometimes appear blue)
3) Right click -> Object Mode (blue lines in other edit modes)
4) Something in Display -> Polygons
5) Attribute Editor -> Mesh Component Display -> Display .. (several)
6) Attribute Editor -> Smooth Mesh -> Smooth Mesh Preview --- finally! my issue

[Anonymous]

Thanks. The last one worked for me too. How the bleep did that happen?

[Anonymous]

Probably hotkeys "1" and "2" on NumPad

[Anonymous]

Checking off Smooth mesh preview worked for me too. Thanks!

[stony331]

I know this was from 3 years ago but it helped me out #6 to the rescue!!

[damaggio]

Maya basic knowledge

F8 key F9 F10 F11= faces

[alexanderkaiser_artist]

Some Heroes don't wear capes!

[camogirl757]

Number 6 was my issue... it wouldn't let me combine the objects without smoothing things I didn't want smoothed. Thanks for the help!

[35481889]

my god thank you so much i thought i was insane lmao 

[tributo_andreanicole]

LIFESAVER! HAD THE SAME ISSUE, THANK YOU SO MUCH!!

[tributo_andreanicole]

LIFESAVER! HAD THE SAME ISSUE! THANK YOU SO MUCH!!

[tributo_andreanicole]

Thanks for this!! : )

[jluo25]

I got rid of the blue lines on my object by going to attributes editor > display > uncheck visibility