Maya 2016 Target Weld Issue

liamdes

Maya 2016's target weld behaves differently from previous Maya versions.  When you select verts in vertex mode it remembers the selection.  Now when you use the target weld tool, it automatically goes back to selecting the vertices that were previously selected in vertex mode.  This is a problem because sometimes you switch to vertex mode and cannot see that it auto selects previously selected vertices.  Then when you use the tool, it merges all selected verts to the target vert.  Is there a way to make it so switching to the target weld tool does not auto select previously selected verts?  This can be a huge problem when you don't see that you merged a bunch of unintended verts and are out of undos.

Example:  You merge some verts on the front side.


Problem is you have previously selected verts on the back facing side that are auto selected when switching to the target weld tool.  They also merge to the targeted vert.  If you don't notice this and keep working, this becomes impossible to fix.



Any way to turn auto vert selection off when switching to the target weld tool?

dur23

If you click on your BG it will deselect those vertices. 

throttlekitty

Multi-cut does the same thing, and I keep running into it remembering the "wrong" selection, or one from several selections ago. I'm not sure about the target weld tool, but you can't deselect in the void with multi-cut. You may want to edit your hotkey or marking menu to go to vert mode, deselect all, then enter the tool?

Joopson

You can turn off "Preserve Component Selections" in preferences, under the "Selection" category, if you prefer it not to save your selection.