There was a post about this before. You could either just get used to pressing Q,W or something instead, or make a small script that does that and assign it to the W key.
hold shift+mmb and u're locked to whatever axis your mouse goes. otherwise you can click the cyan box and when it turned to yellow like pic 1, youre free from any axis constraint. uhm...at least q w workflow is better than modo's space w :P
Ryan: that's weird. It works for me. just add a new hotkey and paste this in to the command and assign it to "w". setToolTo $gSelect; setToolTo $gMove;
Super f*cking annoying I posted about this a while back. Some one e-mailed me the answer here it is. -In the Maya Hotkey Editor, create a new hotkey. Call it something like "TranslateTool_PRESS" -In the subsection of "Assign new hotkey" assign "w" as press -For the command of the new hotkey type in: buildTranslateMM;…
I cant figure this out, I'm hopeing one of you noticed the same thing... In Maya if you use the middle mouse button while on the move tool it allows you to nudge verts around in all 3 axis. If you left click on one of the axis, then the move tool is "locked" on that axis in the sense that if you middle mouse drag it will…
Wrong. Maya 2008 : First press insert for activing the change pivot mode and you can press W for activing the move tools Maya 2009 : Need to press the Insert key one more time for coming back to the previous mode. And, Inser is a far away key, to have to move the left hand near the W // E // S key to the insert key, is…