By default, Maya saves your scene files to the scenes directory of your Projects folder.
To find your project location, select File > Project Window. The Project Window tells you the folder that each type of resource, such as scenes, will be saved to. For more about projects, see Organize Files into Projects.
To start a new, blank scene file
- Select File > New Scene.
You can select to always create new scenes with default content by choosing
File > New Scene >
and turning on
Enable Default Scene in the
New Scene Options.
To open an existing scene file
- Select
.
The Open dialog box appears, open in the scene folder of the current project.
Note:To open a file that was created in a earlier version of Maya, ensure the Ignore Version preference is turned on in the File/Projects preferences. See Files/Projects preferences.
To save the current scene file
- Do one of the following:
- To save the scene with its current name, select .
- To save the scene with a new name, select .
- To change how
Maya saves the scene, select
File > Save Scene >
and set the
Save Scene Options.
When you use Save Scene As you can select whether to save the file as Maya Binary (smaller) or Maya ASCII (human readable). To save in a different format, use File > Export All.
You can optionally lock a file to prevent the file from being edited whenever it is referenced from other scene files using the Lock file option.