Maya Tutorial: Everything on how to move the pivot point in Maya

[@gregoryharrington2261]

Great tutorial! Some more advanced tips on Pivots: While modeling an object, hit ctrl + shift + right click. Go to Axis -> Custom -> set to edge. You can now extrude or manipulate a a different edge or face to go along the same path as the edge you selected. You can do the same with selecting a face to make a custom axis from. This changed my world for modeling when I found this out. Also I might have just missed it but the "X" shortcut snaps the pivot to the ground plane.

[@SavvasDesigns]

great tutorial. Very easy to understand, withought skipping any steps for us beginners . keep it up

[@joseluismendoza374]

Thank You!!! Very Straight forward and easy to understand

[@natpalazzo8833]

Very good video. Very informative and well presented.

[@cgjcTools]

Thank you!

[@nargesnarges6078]

Hi. Tanks a lot. You explain very well.

[@nurb2kea]

Well, I learned two new shortcut keys. :-)) Thanks! More shortcut or pi-menues tutorials are very welcome! ;-)

[@cgjcTools]

Nurb 2Kea sounds great! Glad you learned some new things.

[@bridgetburt]

Very helpful video. I would love a video on baking pivots and how pivots work with freeze transform

[@theapexpredator157]

Was hoping to get some ideas on how to Aim a Secondary Axis of a Pivot after Aiming the First one. For example Aiming X and then setting Y to be Relatively Straight up... Hopefully that makes sense, otherwise I can explain further...

[@unrealdevop]

Not bad but you assume people are using a Mac, showing us from a Menu can help get around that if you don't know the hotkeys for a PC

[@sridharm1372]

thank you very much , this video is so helpfull.

[@cgjcTools]

Glad you enjoyed and that it helped you

[@marcelodeniz3932]

nice explanation

[@fabiotn2008]

Thank you so much! =D

[@cgjcTools]

Happy to help!

[@MahbubRahman999]

This is a helpful video_🥰

[@rupasree8055]

thx

[@aviv32]

if im on vertex mode for example, sometimes i need to switc hthe pivot point and then it stays in the same location i changed it to the all vertecis .. how do i change it back so automaticly it will be on the center of the vertex im choosing ? modify and center pivot only works on object mode and not changing the pivot of vertex

[@masoudrashidinezhad9429]

Thank you.

[@sgiff]

At 4:59 it shows you selecting the D key to snap the second sphere manipulator to the first spheres pivot. But D only allows me to move the pivot on sphere 2, I actually have to select V in maya to make it snap. This tutorial doesnt even show you selecting the V key. Why is that?

[@PEMGILRAT]

i have been looking for a video tat shows how to change the axes of the pivot by rotating in exacts degrees. but i cant find any. when i eneter pivot editor and use the rotation configuration to change the direction of my axes the rotation tool doesnt change by 5 degrees it keeps going like in free mode. :( any advice ?

[@PEMGILRAT]

nvm, i find out that you need to press J key in order to edit the axis of pivot point by a snap angle of 15 degrees. this is a very hide hot key in maya in my opinion :(

[@cgjcTools]

Excellent question. There is a way to type an exact number. If you open the tools setting and change the options to custom. Right underneath there are 3 boxes for x y z that you can type an angel

[@sridharm1372]

subscribed tq

[@cgjcTools]

Thank you!

[@rahamimbenartzi6872]

Hi how do we make PIVOT follow the sign ?

[@cgjcTools]

What do you mean sign?

[@rahamimbenartzi6872]

@@cgjcToolsHow to do, PIVOT with the axis will follow the object

[@cgjcTools]

@@rahamimbenartzi6872 Once you move the pivot it will move with the object relative to the distance that you moved it. If you want it back to default you can center the pivot by clicking on the object and going to modify -> Center Pivot

[@rahamimbenartzi6872]

I did not explain well. I'm currently building hair on my head. And I use In MOVE TOOL and I do not get AXIS .Once I touch her hair. And it is not possible to use CENER PIVOT all the time. It should be automatic. Thanks

[@cgjcTools]

@@rahamimbenartzi6872 Have you tried resetting the move tool settings? Is the hair geometry, xgen, or something else?