Maya - thicker lines permanent

Toast · Nov 2011

In Maya there's an option to draw thicker lines in the viewport. As Im using a hi res display it's much better for me to have the thicker lines however Maya forgets this settings.

I have this MEL code:

string $visPanels[] = `getPanel -vis`;
modelEditor -e -lineWidth 2 $visPanels;

But can't seem to find a way to exceute it every new instance of maya as the maya.env ignores it.

Does anyone else know of any ways to make thicker lines permanent in maya?

dpaynter26 · Nov 2011

Window>Settings/Preferences>Preferences and in the preferences menu go to display and find polygons there should be a setting for edge width in there

Toast · Nov 2011

Unfortunately that option only seems to control border edges.

The option I'm thinking of exists in Shading > Thicker Lines and affects most viewport items not just polys. Makes things much easier at high res.

chronic · Nov 2011

put those lines in your userSetup.mel

Toast · Nov 2011

Ah sorry I'm an idiot. I meant to say I already tried the code in the userSetup, not the maya.env.

Unfortunately it does not work. I think it gets parsed before the getPanel -vis code has a chance to execute properly.

Oh well, I can just put this to a hotkey in the meantime as workaround if this is not possible.

Warheart · Nov 2011

Yep, that doesn't work in userSetup because at the point when you query for panels there aren't any created yet. For this sort of thing if you want to set up some script to be executed once Maya is finished starting up then you can use an -idleEvent scriptjob instead.

Try putting this in your userSetup.mel:

scriptJob -runOnce true -idleEvent "modelEditor -e -lineWidth 2 (`getPanel -vis`);";

That way the execution will be delayed until Maya is idle.

Toast · Nov 2011

A scriptJob! Genius! Thanks Warheart.

Axcel · Dec 2022

The command can be found in settings.

Does anyone know how to change the thickness of selected edges only?

Maya - thicker lines permanent

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