UI Elements preferences

You can set the following preferences in the UI category of the Preferences window.

Visible UI Elements

Hides or displays UI elements. You can also control this display from the Display > UI Elements menu.

Turns on any elements you want displayed in the Maya main window.

Editor in Main Window

You can select to show or hide the Editor. The Editor can be one of the Attribute Editor, Tool Settings, or Channel Box/Layer Editor. You can also control this display from the Display > UI Elements menu or the three icons on the far right of the Status Line.

Panel Configurations

Starting new scenes

You can specify a layout for new scenes.

Keep current layout

Keeps the current layout for new scenes.

Use layout specified Below

Creates new scenes based on the layout selected from the drop-down menu. Single Perspective View is the default.

On new scene: Reset viewport panel settings

De-select this option so that your panel preferences, for example, your choice of viewport (default viewport, Viewport 2.0), shading mode (for example, Wireframe), or lighting mode (for example, Use All Lights) are saved with your session of Maya.

If you select this option, all of your panel settings are reset when a new session of Maya starts.