Maya - how to select sub compontent only on active object

iniside

Maya have bad habit on affecting subcomponent from right-click menu on anything that cursor happen to be.

Is there way to force subcomponent selection only to object I have currently selected/active regardless of where the cursor is ?

m4dcow

F9, F10, F11, F12 is vertex, edge, face, UV mode respectively.

iniside

That's nice to know. But is there really not way to constrain right-click menu ?

m4dcow

Well I don't know of a way to constrain the right click menu to one object, but sometimes I will make a layer set to template, and just throw all the other meshes into that so they don't get selected.