Maya copy/paste without groups

MikeF

Is there any setting that can be changed within maya so that imported objects either through the copy/paste or import dialog are brought in without automatically being put in a group and having the "pasted" prefix added on?

it's not a major inconvenience but it's rather annoying to have things nicely named and cleanly set up in one scene, bring it over to another and have to re-name and un group

bugo

Maya does it as a protection to not copy over files on the existing file you are pasting. But yeah, why the groups? I don't know... hard to say. It's just like as "separate", creates groups, plus nodes everywhere. I rather using "detach" from CreativeCrash.

Denny

After import, select the groups and go to Modify > Search and Replace Names. If you have pasted__ as prefix do:

Search for: pasted__
Replace with: (add a space)

Replace hierarchy. If you did correctly Maya will whine in the log editor but will successfully remove all the prefixes.

fade1

you can modify the existing copy/paste script from maya.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/132816/cutCopyPaste.mel
i added a comment in the script so you can see what i did change. copy it in the maya script folder, restart maya and no more groups and _pasted prefix. if you don't like it, just delete the script from the folder and you're back to maya default...

MikeF

thanks for the info guys much appreciated.

fade1: thanks a lot man, above and beyond!

bugo

hey, thats awesome, thanks fade1

Warheart

You could also use duplicate rather than copy/paste (ctrl+d).

Denny

Doesn't work between scenes.

Warheart

Ah yes.. this is why I should read the post properly

malcolm

I made myself a button that exports selection to c:temp as temp.mb, I then have another button which imports c:temp/temp.mb

No groups, works between scene or with multiple copies of Maya open. You could make this a single button in Maya 2011 or later by giving it double click properties to import and single click to export.

littleclaude

malcolm wrote: »

I made myself a button that exports selection to c:temp as temp.mb, I then have another button which imports c:temp/temp.mb

No groups, works between scene or with multiple copies of Maya open. You could make this a single button in Maya 2011 or later by giving it double click properties to import and single click to export.

Perfect, thanks

kodde

Why not use the Duplicate or Duplicate Special commands?