maya viewport navigation

MikeF

So it looks like i'm developing some repetitive strain/cts on my left (keyboard) hand. I've narrowed it down to my thumb having to tuck under my palm to press ALT when rotating/panning, is there any way to change this keypress?

Or maybe even a way to remap the rotate scale and move hotkeys away from QWE so that my thumb can rest on alt. I tried looking under the hotkey assignments and couldnt find anything

Any help would be appreciated, this is very painful and it's getting in the way of my daily work

mole420

If you open up: Window, Settings/Preferences, Hotkey Editor
you can change the keys for most things there they can just take some time to find.
If you want to change the rotate/panning that's in the Navigation section as Tumble Tool. And if you wanted to change the move rotate scale keys they are found in Modify.

Hope this helps

sculptn

I like the 3D connexion mouse but would be cheaper just to do as suggested above.

MikeF

Thanks Mole420, that did the trick!

Sculptn: are those worth bothering with?
I tried one briefly years ago when i was in school but never bothered sticking with it since i figured i'd be working with a mouse in almost all jobs

I always kind of thought that it would just be another device that would eventually cause wrist pain, just on my mouse hand instead.

sculptn

Yeah its not for everyone I use it mainly to try to alternate things now and again. If im using it i have it to my left and a wacom on my right and a keyboard with no numberpad in the middle just to save deskspace. Might be no harm to use Workrave or something like it.

MikeF

cool, i'l have a look at workrave tonight, thanks!

joebount

Or you could use a Razer Nostromo, really handy and fully customisable

sculptn

Yeah I thought of getting one of those can you navigate in the viewport with them like with the connexion ?

joebount

Kinda, you can assign basicaly any key command to any keys on it.