Focus view on component with symmetry on?

[Anonymous]

Maybe this seems trivial, but it happens a lot when I want to focus my view on a component that I want to tweak, tap F to zoom in, but with symmetry on, the viewport frames both left and right components. So I can't really orbit my view around a localized area, instead the viewport camera swings generally about the symmetrical selection. If you are working on an ear, or a pair of shoes, it is incredibly painful to orbit + pan the viewport camera to get the work done.

My work around is to disable symmetry, select a single component, frame the view, and then re-enable symmetry.

Any other tricks out there for accomplishing a localized viewport frame with symmetry enabled?

[mspeer]

Hi!

What Maya version are you using?

GPU?

Viewport mode?

OS?

I tested this with a simple Cube with a high value for width and

only the manual selected component (not mirrored selection) will be focused.

(Tested with Maya 2017.4 - Maya 2019).

Maybe there is a problem with your mesh or the preferences.

Please try again with a simple cube and maybe

try a reset of your preferences.
Rename the folder prefs in folder 2018(/Maya version) like prefs_backup, or to reset everything, the folder 2018 to 2018_backup (or even the maya folder to maya_backup). Maya creates new folders (don't copy preferences from previous Maya versions). Detailed at:
https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/maya/troubleshooting/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/Reset-May...

If it still doesn't work, please add a screencast.

[Anonymous]

So:

Turn on symmetry

Select a component(s)

Press F

Does the viewport frame around your selected component, or both selected and symmetrical twin component?

I'm using Maya 2018, Windows, nVidia GTX 1080, Viewport 2.0

This seems like the default behavior to me, and not a symptom of the mesh, I think its always worked this way?

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

So, it looks like all I need to do is remap my 'F' key to 'Frame Selection with Children in all views'

[zewt]

You probably want just "FrameSelected" rather than the "in all views" version.  That's bound to ^F by default, so you don't necessarily need to rebind anything (the two behave differently when focusing groups).

I've been bothered by this many times, not being able to tell what's selected because framing pulls way out to show me the symmetric selection as well, and didn't know that I just had to press ^F instead.  I wish there was some way for things like this to be more easily discovered.

[Anonymous]

^F , is that 'shift+F'? I was confused because I never actually messed
with the keybindings until I grew irritable enough to look into how I can
pivot about my selection with symmetry enabled.

[zewt · Accepted solution]

^F is control-F.  I didn't know about that hotkey either until I went searching through the hotkey editor.  It's a good one to know when using symmetry.