Detach and reattach to selected joints

This procedure is similar to detaching and reattaching a skeleton, except that it only applies to selected joints.

Detaching selected joints from the skin objects they influence unlocks the transform attributes of the objects so that you can reposition them. Detaching selected joints preserves the rigid skin point sets and the rigid skin point weights. Detaching and reattaching selected joints is especially useful if you want to move, rotate, or scale certain skin objects directly while not changing which joints influence which rigid skin points.

To detach selected joints

1. Select the joints you want to detach.
2. In the command line, enter DetachSkeletonJoints.

To reattach selected joints

1. Select the joints you want to reattach.
2. In the command line, enter ReattachSkeletonJoints.

Note: Rigid Bind menu options have been removed from Maya to streamline other workflows. Rigid Bind functionality is still present using the scripting commands provided in the Rigid skinning topic. You can also obtain a Rigid bind using smooth skin with 1 influence per vertex.